Final hearing day as inquiry continues into dead Queensland police officer and Ricky Maddison

Numerous breakdowns in communication between various squads and regional stations have been highlighted during the first two days of the coronial inquest.

Senior Constable Brett Forte told his wife just days before he was murdered that he had been “told zip” about the search for his eventual killer, Ricky Maddison, because he was “in the B-Team”.

On Monday, David Funch, representing Forte’s widow Susan, laid out the multiple reports of automatic gunfire made to police by residents near where Maddison was hiding in the months before the shooting.

One female resident near Maddison’s property reported hearing automatic gunfire and when she rang to follow up she was told by a police officer: “It could not possibly be automatic…