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6 Wednesday <strong>March</strong> 27 <strong>2019</strong><br />
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SELWYN TIMES<br />
News<br />
Aramoana cop’s insight into capture<br />
• By Barry Clarke<br />
AN ANTI-terrorist squad leader<br />
involved in hunting and shooting<br />
David Gray at Aramoana has<br />
given an insight into what would<br />
have happened in the minutes<br />
leading up to the capture of the<br />
alleged mosque gunman.<br />
Mike Kyne said the two <strong>Selwyn</strong>based<br />
officers who apprehended<br />
in Brougham St could have taken<br />
the easy way out – and shot him.<br />
“Their credibility and moral<br />
compass was such that they did<br />
not do that. I was gratified these<br />
two constables did not resort to<br />
killing him,” he said.<br />
“They could have killed him<br />
and no one would have cared. If it<br />
was overseas he would have been<br />
dead.”<br />
One of the officers is based at<br />
Lincoln, and the other at an as yet<br />
undisclosed <strong>Selwyn</strong> police station.<br />
Both are seasoned police.<br />
Mr Kyne, led one of the police<br />
anti-terrorist squads sent in to<br />
hunt down Gray after his murderous<br />
spree in the Otago coastal<br />
settlement of Aramoana in November,<br />
1990.<br />
Gray killed 13 people including<br />
Port Chalmers police sergeant<br />
Stewart Guthrie, the first officer<br />
on the scene.<br />
The following day Gray<br />
EXPERIENCE: Mike Kyne praised the efforts of the two policemen, including one from Lincoln,<br />
who apprehended the alleged mosque gunman.<br />
emerged from a bach firing wildly<br />
at Mr Kyne’s squad as they cleared<br />
the area. Police returned fire and<br />
Gray was mortally wounded.<br />
Mr Kyne said the two constables<br />
who captured the accused<br />
mosque gunman would have had<br />
been only seconds to make life<br />
and death decisions on Friday.<br />
Police were operating under<br />
standing orders which would allow<br />
them to shoot to kill.<br />
The constables had been training<br />
with the armed offenders<br />
squad at The Princess Margaret<br />
Hospital on Friday afternoon<br />
when the shooting spree began.<br />
The squad was mobilised and<br />
they headed in different directions<br />
trying to find the gunman.<br />
“They were heading into a very<br />
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active and confused situation. The<br />
gunman had travelled at speed<br />
to Linwood (from the Deans Ave<br />
mosque) and was now mobile<br />
again.<br />
“The pressure would have been<br />
ramping up. Everything is happening<br />
at high speed,” he said.<br />
The two officers travelled from<br />
The Princess Margaret Hospital<br />
to Brougham St looking for the<br />
suspect.<br />
Mr Kyne said by this stage<br />
police would have had a<br />
registration number and<br />
description of the vehicle the<br />
gunman was travelling in.<br />
“The two constables would<br />
be aware of this. The passenger<br />
would be talking to the driver,<br />
telling him to turn here, turn<br />
there.<br />
“In that car the two guys<br />
would only be concentrating on<br />
the facts, the car rego, the make<br />
and the fact they have a moving<br />
offender.<br />
“They would be talking and<br />
assessing options if they found<br />
the vehicle. The boys would have<br />
been thinking a million miles<br />
an hour. ‘How are we going to<br />
deal with this when we meet<br />
him’. They would have made a<br />
commitment that if they found<br />
him they would have to stop<br />
him.<br />
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