Zachary Rolfe: former NT police officer loses bid to avoid giving evidence at Kumanjayi Walker inquest
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Northern Territory court upholds coroner's ruling that witnesses could be forced to answer questions at inquest into fatal police shooting
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A former Northern Territory police officer has lost an appeal and can be forced to answer a coroner's questions about the fatal shooting of an Indigenous teenager.
Ex-constable Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19, three times during a bungled outback arrest in Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, on 9 November 2019.
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