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Morni ngton
18 February
2014
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Down to the sea go three AUTHOR and therapist Bernadette Hoey celebrated her 80th birthday last week by taking a dip at Mt Martha in a seagrass palanquin, the Eastern version of a sedan chair. It was made for her by peninsula puppeteer Ian Cuming who, with Mornington author and world renowned shakuhatchi flute player Anne Norman, joined Ms Hoey for her birthday. “Anne and I wanted to do something special for Bernadette so we arranged a beach picnic. She’s a very dear friend and mentor,� Mr Cuming said. “We can so easily forget the wisdom carried by our elders,� said Ms Norman, whose busy schedule of national and international touring has been on hold for the summer while she works on her children’s novel about the sea. Continued Page 10 Novel approach: Former Mt Martha author and therapist Bernadette Hoey takes a dip for her 80th birthday helped by Anne Norman and Ian Cuming. Picture: Yanni
Police ‘forced to fire’ By Chris Brennan THE four Mornington police officers at the centre of last week’s tragic events in Tyabb appear to have done everything they could to defuse the situation and would be forever affected by the ordeal, senior police said. With Hastings police tied up on other jobs, the two units from Mornington police station were the first officers to arrive at the Tyabb cricket ground
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shortly after 6.20pm last Tuesday and would have had no idea of the horrific situation they were about encounter. What they were confronted with was the battered body of a young boy and a highly agitated and aggressive man covered in blood and armed with a large knife. Moments earlier, he had threated ambulance officers. Now he was turning his hostility on them.
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While the exact circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Luke Batty’s killer, his father Greg Anderson, are subject to several ongoing investigations, it appears police had little option but to open fire. An interim police investigation suggests Anderson had planned in advance to go to the Tyabb sports ground to kill his son and then commit “suicide by cop� by forcing police to shoot him.
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Witnesses said Anderson, armed with a large kitchen knife, had shouted “shoot me� as he rounded on the four police officers. The officers attempted to talk to him, telling him to drop the knife. They then tried to subdue him with capsicum spray. When this failed, and with Anderson now running toward them, one of the officers fired a single shot into his chest.
Even this failed to stop him, with police having to use physical force to subdue the mortally wounded killer. He died about six hours later at The Alfred hospital. Mornington senior sergeant Ron Barbary said the four officers, who were all currently on leave, had been confronted with a situation that all police dreaded. Continued Page 10
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