Inquest reveals how Gareth Train went from ‘keyboard warrior’ to killer, and radicalised his wife and brother
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Inquest reveals how Gareth Train went from ‘keyboard warrior’ to killer, and radicalised his wife and brother
The influence of Donald Day Jr
Associate professor Josh Roose testified that it was during the Covid-19 pandemic that Gareth’s descent into true radicalisation began.
He tried sovereign citizen ideas and contacted an anti-vaccine political party, but found them too boring and was again rejected.
Then, in 2020, he finally found answers, in an online meeting with an American calling himself Geronimo’s Bones.
“He starts to feel like that connection that he’s been looking for, all those boxes are ticked. He’s not only talking, in a conspiratorial sense, about the role of government, a corrupt, evil government behind the scenes, but also the End Times,” Roose said.
“In all the material that I’ve reviewed, that is the key moment.”
The man, Donald Day Jr, told him he needed to resist violently.
Crucially, Day, a charismatic and “eloquent” individual, treated him as an equal.
“It offered Gareth a sense of belonging that he had been searching for, and a sense of significance and status,” Roose said.
On 6 January 2021, Stacey and Nathaniel gathered at 251 Wains Road Wieambilla for an event they called “church”.
“It’s most likely that this was Gareth revealing the grand opus and how everything came together,” Roose said.
“World events, weather events, the worsening situation of the world, the various paranoid beliefs about Asio, monitoring, hacking, poisoning, chemtrails, people being abducted, being turned into non-humans … wearing meat suits, police and authority figures being agents of evil.”
He probably laid out his theory about the end of the world, Roose testified.
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