Waters too dangerous for search: inquest

By Fraser Barton
Updated September 15 2021 - 5:35pm, first published 5:31pm
Police have told an inquest it was too dangerous to search for the two men in a stormwater drain.
Police have told an inquest it was too dangerous to search for the two men in a stormwater drain.

An expert witness has defended a police decision not to immediately search a stormwater drain for two Indigenous men who were later found dead after floods in Townsville.

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