QLD: Coroner to deliver bike chase finding

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2008
QLD: Coroner to deliver bike chase finding

Queensland coroner MICHAEL BARNES will deliver his findings today .. into the circumstances
of a fatal motorcycle chase.

An inquest has heard police officers deliberately lied about the chase .. because they
knew they had broken rules applying to vehicle chases.

Twenty-six-year-old bikie CRAIG ROBERT SHEPHERD was killed .. and his female passenger
seriously injured .. when their motorbike skidded around a tight bend on a Gold Coast
road in 2006.

Senior Constables STEPHEN CHAPMAN and HILTON BUCKLEY said in their defence they tried
twice to contact the communications command during the pursuit .. but were let down by
a malfunctioning radio.

But Constable CHAPMAN admitted on Wednesday he could have used his mobile phone to
contact headquarters.

AAP RTV cj/pjo/crh/wz/psm/

KEYWORD: SHEPHERD (GOLD COAST)

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