Bourke Street attack coroner laments 'agonising' failures that led to massacre

Poor police planning and inadequate resources allowed James Gargasoulas, a ‘violent, drug-fuelled, psychotic perpetrator to slip through the cracks’

A coroner has detailed an “agonising” litany of failures by Victorian authorities to stop Melbourne’s Bourke St Mall killer James Gargasoulas.

Six people died and 27 others were injured when he drove a stolen car through CBD lunchtime crowds on 20 January 2017.

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