QLD News Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The families of slain police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold have delivered raw and powerful impact statements on the final day of the mammoth Wieambilla inquest.
Counsel assisting the coroner, Ruth O’Gorman KC, made a statement to the inquest after the families spoke. “Your Honour, before I commence my closing submissions, I wish to say that on behalf of all of those at the bar table, I acknowledge the statements that we’ve just heard,” she said. “The depth of loss is unfathomable.
But the depth of love clearly also knows no bounds, and I honour that loss and that love.” RACHEL MCCROW’S FAMILY STATEMENT Written on behalf of Judy and Samantha McCrow Tomorrow - Friday, August 30 - Rachel would have turned 31. It will be a day marked by impossible grief.
Not only for the loss of our beautiful “Rach”, but for the many years of promise we’d looked forward to sharing with her as a family. Time isn’t healing our wounds, our trauma remains intense, and our memories are so hard to let go of. We can’t escape the fallout from the calculated, premeditated evil which claimed Rachel on December 12, 2022, at Wieambilla.
Our beloved Rachel deserves open disclosure and full transparency. The Inquest has exposed to the public the many despicable, disgusting and hate-filled acts which so brutally ended Rachel’s hopes and ambitions. Ambitions that would certa.