Wieambilla attack driven by shared delusions, not terrorism

The Wieambilla attackers, who killed two police officers and a neighbour, acted under a common delusion of cruelty and were not committing an act of terrorism, the Queensland state coroner has found.

Coroner Terry Ryan said while he acknowledged the influence of Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train’s conspiracy theory-backed and extremist Christian ideology, he could not conclude their actions fit an “unhelpfully narrow” legal definition of terrorism; This was a stance at odds with Queensland Police and ASIO’s classification of the incident.

Nearly three years after the incident and 18 months into the investigation, Ryan submitted a report It investigates the causes of six deaths at a remote property in Queensland on December 12, 2022: Trains, Constable Rachel McCrow, Constable Matthew Arnold and neighbor Alan Dare.