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Senior Constable Brett Forte

Wednesday, December 06

'Sitting ducks': Coroner blasts leadership failures before police officer ambushed

Lured down a dirt road, police officers were “sitting ducks” when Ricky Maddison fatally shot Senior Constable Brett Forte, a coroner says.

Fatal shooter's 'venom' towards Qld police, inquest told

A man who peppered a police car with automatic gunfire that killed Queensland officer Brett Forte had expressed “a lot of venom” towards police, an inquest has been told.

A memorial photograph of Constable Brett Forte at his funeral in Toowoomba, in June 2017. (Photo: AAP Image/Glenn Hunt)

Cop-killer was asked to surrender 85 times during deadly siege, court told

A man who fatally shot a Queensland police officer was asked to surrender more than 80 times during a 20-hour siege that ended with his death.