The murder of two police officers at a rural Australian property in 2022 was not a religious terror attack, Queensland's state coroner has found – despite authorities previously declaring it the first such case in the nation's history.
Constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow were on a routine visit to the property at Wieambilla in December 2022 when Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train ambushed and killed them.
The attack triggered an hours-long siege which ended with police fatally shooting the trio.
Now, in findings released on Friday, authorities have declared that the ambush was not an act of terrorism, while acknowledging that the Trains were religious fanatics and conspiracy theorists.
State Coroner Terry Ryan said the trio acted "defensively within their delusional framework to defend themselves and their property from what they regarded was an evil advance on them".
