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Families speak of crushing pain of losing police officers in Eastern Freeway crash
The grieving widow of a police officer who was killed on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway has come face-to-face with his killer for the first time, telling a court about the anguish of breaking the news to their three children.
Key points:
- Sharron MacKenzie described the anguish of telling her three children their father was dead
- Kevin King was one of four officers killed by a truck in the Eastern Freeway crash last year
- The father of Constable Andrew Prestney recalled waiting for police to arrive with the bad news
Sharron MacKenzie sobbed as she told Victoria’s Supreme Court that she still felt she could die from a broken heart, almost a year after her childhood sweetheart, Senior Constable Kevin King, was killed when a truck ploughed into him…
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