A Northern Territory police officer charged with murder has denied making up aspects of his account of the shooting, including that the Aboriginal man he shot dead had his hand on his gun and that he believed he had seen the man stabbing his colleague.
Constable Zachary Rolfe repeatedly disagreed with prosecutor Philip Strickland SC in the NT supreme court on Friday when asked whether he had made up parts of his story or rehearsed answers. Rolfe disputed Strickland’s suggestion that he knew he had “gone too far” and been “gung ho” when he shot dead Kumanjayi Walker.
