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Speaker 1: The case continues in the Supreme Court today and Matt

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Speaker 1: Cunningham from Sky News is there to cover it all.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Matt, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How's it going in the court this week.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's been it's been an interesting couple of days,

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Speaker 2: in particular the evidence of Confortable James Kirstenfeld. Now, he

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Speaker 2: was part of that immediate Response team that was sent

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Speaker 2: from Alice Springs to Yindimou on the ninth of November

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, the day that Kumba Joe Walker was shot

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Speaker 2: dead by Comfortable Zachary Rolf. He's given evidence. He gave

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Speaker 2: evidence for two days here in the Northern Territory Supreme Court.

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Speaker 2: He was asked a series of questions by the prosecution

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Speaker 2: about what he could recall about an arrest plan that

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Speaker 2: the court had been told had been given to members

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Speaker 2: of that immediate response team asked the Jundamu Police station

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Speaker 2: on that night before those officers went out into the community.

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Speaker 2: He said he couldn't recall being given that plan, either

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Speaker 2: a physical copy of it or an emailed copy of it.

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Speaker 2: He was asked that question several times by Philip Strickland

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Speaker 2: from the prosecution. He said he didn't recall. When the

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Speaker 2: court resumed yesterday, Philip Strickland actually played a video of

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Speaker 2: a police interview that Comfortable James curses Felt had given

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Speaker 2: twelve days after the shooting, where he told a detective

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Speaker 2: that he had been that he'd seen a copy of

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Speaker 2: that plan, that he'd been given a copy of that

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Speaker 2: plan in the Undamo police station. Philip Strickland actually asked

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Speaker 2: the Comfortable James Kurston so if he was deliberately saying

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Speaker 2: I don't recall because he wanted to be helpful to

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Speaker 2: Comfortable Zachary Rolf. He replied, no, He just said that

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Speaker 2: he didn't think it was the same email he's been sent,

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Speaker 2: perhaps a different email. And he said, in fact that

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Speaker 2: this email that he was looking at now, this email

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Speaker 2: of the arrest plan. He said it would have been

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Speaker 2: helpful to have that on the night because he said

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Speaker 2: it had new photos of Kumen Jy Walker that would

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Speaker 2: have made it easier for them to find him. We

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Speaker 2: also heard yesterday some evidence from some community members at

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Speaker 2: yind Moo. We heard from Kumen Joe Walker's grand who

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Speaker 2: lived at House five one one at the house where

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Speaker 2: Kum and Joe Walker was shot. We also heard from

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Speaker 2: Nathan Coulthard, who's Komen Joe Walker's stepfather. He was out

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Speaker 2: the front of that house on the night that police

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Speaker 2: arrived there. And we heard from Ethan Robertson, Now he

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Speaker 2: was a man. He's the father of Kumen Joe Walker's girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: Now he was at another house, house five seven seven,

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Speaker 2: when police arrived there. That's the first house they went

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Speaker 2: to look for Komen Joe Walker and in Namo on

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Speaker 2: that night. When they were there, the officers asked Ethan

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Speaker 2: Robertson where Kumen Joe Walker might be and he told

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Speaker 2: them that he was probably at his house five one one,

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Speaker 2: where they eventually ended up and where he was eventually shot.

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Speaker 2: And the court also heard that as soon as he'd

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Speaker 2: spoken to those police officers and they'd left, he'd actually

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Speaker 2: tried to call his daughter, Rakeisha Robertson, Komen Joe Walk's partner,

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Speaker 2: to let them know that police were looking for Matt.

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Speaker 1: It certainly sounds like like there's been a lot going

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Speaker 1: on over the last week and a half. What can

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Speaker 1: we expect to happen today.

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Speaker 2: Well, we should hear from more members of the Udimo

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Speaker 2: community and also over the next couple of days, we

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Speaker 2: should hear evidence from other police officers from this immediate

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Speaker 2: response team. There were four officers in that team. Constable

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Speaker 2: Rolf Comfortable Kurstenveld Kurstenfeld, Constable Anthony Hawkins and also Consortable

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Speaker 2: Adam Berl Now he was Comfortable Rolf's partner. The two

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Speaker 2: of them went into that house to get a house

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Speaker 2: five one one when they had that confrontation with colemen

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Speaker 2: Joye Walker. So we should hear from him in the

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Speaker 2: next couple of days. Katie, that's going to be interesting

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Speaker 2: evidence here in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. We're in

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Speaker 2: week two of this trial, but it is expected that

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Speaker 2: these hearings will run for up to four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, Matt Cunningham, we appreciate you keeping us up

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Speaker 1: to date with what's going on in the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: Thank you once again for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: No worries, thank you,