NSW police union lays blame over cafe siege

THE Police Association of NSW has launched an attack on the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, the NSW Coroner’s office and lawyers involved in the Lindt cafe Siege inquest during a passionate defence of its members at the scene that day.

In a 3400-word document to be sent electronically to all 17,000 members of the NSW Police Association today, the “True Story of the Lindt cafe siege” written by acting president Tony Williams puts the blame of those killed squarely on Man Monis and the DPP for not appealing his bail.

“The reason these people died was that Man Monis was out on bail – for reasons that still haven’t been explained,” he told his members.

“This inquest has failed the community by becoming a witch-hunt into policing rather than a sober level-headed search for the truth,” Mr Williams said.

“The real story of the Lindt cafe is that scores of brave police officers put their lives on the line to protect the public.

“The 14 officers who entered the cafe did so on the assumption there was a bomb that was likely to explode.”

Mr Williams details how the men who stormed the cafe all said good bye to their families that night expecting to die.