A police officer involved in the search for Gordon Copeland, a Gomeroi man who drowned in the Gwydir river, has told an inquest that she overheard a fellow officer tell other officers he had heard someone “go into the river” after the first search of the area on the night Copeland went missing.
Constable Alice Schmidt-Gearing’s evidence is at odds with earlier statements given by the officers who conducted the initial search for Copeland.
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