The Wieambilla shooters who killed two police officers and a neighbour were motivated by a shared delusion of persecution and did not commit a terrorist act, the Queensland state coroner has found.
While acknowledging the influence of Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train’s conspiracy theory-fuelled and extreme Christian ideology, Coroner Terry Ryan said he could not conclude that their actions fit an “unhelpfully narrow” legal definition of terrorism — a stance contradicting Queensland Police’s and ASIO’s classification of the event.
Nearly three years after the incident and 18 months after the inquest, Ryan handed down a report investigating the causes of the six deaths at the remote Queensland property on December 12, 2022: the Trains, Constable Rachel McCrow, Constable Matthew Arnold and neighbour Alan Dare.
