Mick STERLING

Australian Federal Police

Senior Constable

Died: 5 March 2014

42 years

Brain tumour

  Further information sought re this man.

David ODONOHUE

Australian Federal Police

Senior Constable

Died: 23 November 2013

Brain tumour

  Further information sought re this man.

Colin Stanley WINCHESTER  APM

Regd. #  157

Rank:  Assistant Police Commissioner

Stations: ACT Police

Australian Federal Police ( AFP )

Service:  From 19 March 1962   to  10 January 1989 = 27+ years Service

Awards: National Medal – granted 14 July 1977

Australian Police Medal ( APM ) – granted 26 January 1987

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 8 June 1988

Born: 18 October 1933

Died on:  10 January 1989

Cause:  Shot – Murdered

Age: 55

Funeral date:

Funeral location:

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[alert_green]COLIN IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_green]

Australian Federal Assistant Commissioner shot dead.
Colin Stanley Winchester APM, (18 October 1933 – 10 January 1989) was an Assistant Commissioner in the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

He was a baker’s son who’d worked in the mines at Captain’s Flat and a good-humoured larrikin.

Friends and work colleagues described him as being of great strength, courage, integrity and love, who was tough, hard-working, honest and compassionate.

Colin Winchester had been a police officer for 27 years, first in the Australian Capital Territory Police Force and then in the AFP.

On 10 January 1989, the Canberra suburb was particularly quiet, drowsing in the still, warm, evening air, ACT Policing Chief Police Officer Colin Winchester drove to his Deakin home.

At 9.15pm, as he stepped from his car Assistant Commissioner Winchester was dead, shot twice in the head at point blank range with a Ruger 10/22 .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle fitted with a silencer.

Colin Winchester’s death made headlines around the world and sparked one of the most complex criminal investigations in Australian history. It ran for more than five years.

There were many allegations of mafia involvement and that the Assistant Commissioner had been executed by the Mafia when it was revealed he’d been part of a controversial investigation targeting drug financiers and suppliers.

At a sting involved a marijuana plantation at Bungendore, a Mafia informant who told his bosses that Colin Winchester was corrupt. It was said that the police chief was shot because Mafia bosses Winchester was cleared when an independent auditor found that with no unexplained wealth to his name, it was unlikely that Colin Winchester had been on the take.

David Harold Eastman was convicted of Winchester’s murder on November 11, 1995, after a four year surveillance investigation.

Justice Ken Carruthers during his sentencing remarks said “the scientific aspect of the case resulted in

“one of the most skilled, sophisticated and determined forensic investigations in the history of Australia”.

Justice Carruthers sentenced Eastman to life imprisonment.

Winchester was Australia’s most senior police officer to have been killed.

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