STABBING VICTIM’S FINAL CALL

Coroner to hear details of four calls to emergency services

ENTHRALLING evidence set to be heard at the Alva Beach inquest into the deaths of Thomas Davy ( pictured) and Corey Christensen will reveal how one of the victims called paramedics minutes before he died.

The fresh details were outlined at a preinquest hearing in Brisbane yesterday.

ENTHRALLING evidence set to be heard at a long-awaited Alva Beach inquest will reveal how one of the victims called paramedics minutes before he died.

Fresh details outlined at a pre-inquest hearing in Brisbane on Thursday are part of evidence to be heard by the coroner at the five-day inquest in October, almost two years since Thomas Davy and Corey Christensen were found stabbed to death in the sleepy town. The men were found dead at a Topton St home on October 1, 2018 after trying to look for a friend, Candice Locke, who had sought refuge in the family home of stranger Dean Webber.

The details of the men’s deaths are still unclear, but at some point the men were stabbed while inside the home.

At Brisbane Coroners Court yesterday morning, counsel assisting the coroner, Joseph Crawfoot, revealed details of four phone calls made between those at the home and emergency services would be revealed at the in- quest. Mr Webber called Queensland Am- bulance Service at 12.26am, and he also received a call from Ayr police shortly after in relation to the first call for service.

At 12.58am, Mr Davy made a call to paramedics after he had been stabbed, but he died minutes later.

Mr Webber made a final call to paramedics one minute after Mr Davy. The response time from both Queensland Ambulance Service and Queensland Police Service will be investigated at the hearing, as well as whether earlier intervention could have saved the men.

Mr Crawfoot said Ms Locke’s “level of intoxication” at an NRL gathering before the deaths would be a subject of discussion, as well as how she broke her arm later in the night.

“There will be evidence heard at the inquest as to how, after the grand final had finished, Ms Locke came to acquire a comminuted fracture of her left humerus and after acquiring that injury she came to be present inside the house at Topton Street, Alva Beach,” Mr Crawfoot said.

He said evidence would be given that Mr Davy left the party after the argument but Ms Locke stayed and interacted with a number of people including Mr Christensen.

“The sequence of events leading to her being inside the house will be a matter of factfinding at the inquest,” he said.

Mr Crawfoot said one of the 10 main issues to be explored at the inquest would be the decision not to charge and or prosecute any person over the incident.

The inquest will begin on October 12 at Cairns Coroners Court and is expected to run for five days.