Family of Aboriginal woman shot dead by police in Geraldton speak ahead of coronial inquest
A warning to First Nations viewers, this story contains the name and image of a person who has died. The mother of JC, a woman shot dead by police in WA’s regional city of Geraldton, hopes a coronial inquest will finally provide the family with answers. The review will investigate police constable Brent Wyndham’s shooting of the Yamatji woman and his supreme court acquittal in 2021.
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00:00Almost five years ago, a gunshot rang out on this suburban street.
00:07It was late on a Tuesday afternoon, neighbours were chatting over the fence, when a woman
00:11holding a knife and a pair of scissors walked into view.
00:14A member of the public called triple zero, drawing the response of four police cars.
00:19Constable Brent Mitchell Wyndham was one of those officers, and 16 seconds after getting
00:23out of his vehicle, he fatally shot 29-year-old JC.
00:29The incident sparked protest marches in Geraldton and rallies in Perth.
00:34Constable Wyndham was charged with murder, believed to be the first on-duty police officer
00:39to face such a charge in WA in almost 100 years.
00:42He was acquitted by a Supreme Court jury of both murder and the lesser charge of manslaughter
00:47in 2021.
00:48He got a man for his wife and three children, and this kid got my mother.
00:52JC's foster mother remains unable to accept that verdict, saying,
00:56The murder trial of Brent Wyndham produced nothing but unanswered questions for her family,
01:01and her last hope for answers and accountability from the WA police force and the state government
01:06is in the hands of the state coroner.
01:08The inquest is set down for two weeks.