Thursday,
28 August 2025
Surrender plan offered to suspected gunman

Police have pleaded to suspected gunman Dezi Freeman to turn himself in as one of the biggest manhunt’s in Victoria’s history continued for a third day.

The force is throwing every available resource behind a mass search in the Porepunkah area after Freeman was alleged to have killed Wangaratta detective Neal Thompson, 59, and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart, 35 during a routine search warran...

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