Friday,
29 August 2025
Community continues salute to brave, fallen police

Tributes from far and wide continue to flow for Wangaratta stationed police officers who lost their lives in a shooting at a Porepunkah property on Tuesday.

Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, on the eve of retirement and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart, 35, at the beginning of a fruitful career, were allegedly murdered in cold blood by Dezi Freeman, as police conducted a search...

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