State coroner Michael Barnes will hand down his findings into the 16-hour siege, which ended in the deaths of hostages Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson, as well as the gunman Man Haron Monis after police stormed the building just after 2am.
A Police Association of NSW executive member and veteran policeman, Tony King, took a preemptive strike against the coronial inquest on Monday labelling it a “witch-hunt”.
King penned a 3400-word defence of police he published on Monday, saying the 14 officers who stormed the café after Monis shot Johnson, the cafe manager, expected that he had a bomb that would explode. |