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October 14th, 2011 
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There is strong evidence that a policewoman who shot a mentally disturbed man in the back in 2009 accidentally used her gun instead of her Taser, a coroner has found.
Adam Salter was shot and killed in the kitchen of his Lakemba home in November 2009 after police responded to a call that the 36-year-old was stabbing himself with a knife.
The shooter, Sergeant Sheree Bissett, and NSW Police claimed that Mr Salter was threatening another officer with a knife and that lethal force was her only option.
Shooting victim Adam Salter with his sister Zarin.
But the inquest into Mr Salter’s death learnt that Sergeant Bissett shouted “Taser, Taser, Taser” before firing her gun, and Deputy State Coroner Scott Mitchell has found that it was more than likely Sergeant Bissett had made a terrible mistake.
Describing the police response as “an utter failure”, Mr Mitchell said: “There is a very strong flavour of confusion and mistake and, given her cry of ‘Taser, Taser Taser’, I think it is more likely than not that Sergeant Bissett mistakenly chose her Glock, having intended to employ her Taser.
“Police killed the person they were supposed to be helping.
“They forgot to remove or to secure the knife from the sink.
“They removed from the kitchen the very person, his father, most likely to be able to contain him.
“They left Adam Salter in the care of a young and inexperienced and … ineffective and unresponsive officer.”
Mr Mitchell told the Coroners Court in Glebe it was more than likely that, far from representing a threat to police, Mr Salter posed a threat only to himself.
Despite this, “without any proper warning or challenge, Sergeant Bissett fired the fatal shot”.
Mr Mitchell also slammed the internal police investigation that followed the shooting.
He said the critical incident investigation report, written by Detective Inspector Russell Oxford of the NSW Homicide Squad, was “seriously flawed”.
He said the investigation report “provided the commissioner with a very unreliable view of the circumstance of Adam Salter’s death and will have failed to persuade the community that the circumstances surrounding Adam Salter’s death were investigated scrupulously and fairly”.
Mr Mitchell did not make any recommendations and said he would not refer the matter to the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).
However, he left this option open for the family.
Outside the court Mr Salter’s father, Adrian Salter, said the family were still considering whether or not they would pursue the matter with the PIC.
“What’s important to us is that Adam’s life was taken unexpectedly, tragically and unnecessarily,” he told reporters.
“I think that what happened was a tragic mistake and wouldn’t have happened had the police not been carrying guns.”
– with AAP
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