A FIVE-DAY coronial inquest into the murder of Gabriella Thompson and subsequent police shooting of Tafari Walton at Glendale will be held in Sydney in December.
Ms Thompson, a young mother, was brutally stabbed to death by her ex-partner, 21-year-old Mr Walton, a troubled young man with a history of mental illness and domestic abuse who only seven weeks earlier had been granted bail and released on parole.
Mr Walton, who served more than two years in jail for a siege and firearm offences in 2016, was shot dead by police outside his mother's Glendale home less than 24 hours after he had brutally murdered the mother of his child.
The inquest is expected to focus on a number of issues, including the decisions to grant Mr Walton court-ordered parole and strict conditional bail after he was charged with stabbing another inmate at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre. The inquest will run from December 14 to 18 at the NSW State Coroner's Court at Lidcombe.
