27 Oct 2023

Court hears details on first 111 call during mosque

From Morning Report, 7:36 am on 27 October 2023

The coroners court has heard that the woman who took the first 111 call about the Christchurch mosque attacks was only three or four days into the job.

A senior police inspector was grilled on what happened at the emergency call centre on the day of the killings in March 2019.

Emotions also spilled over in the public gallery as a survivor made an impassioned plea to the coroner.

Adam Burns was in court