Jamelle Wells is an ABC television and radio Newsreader and the Senior Court Reporter for New South Wales. She works across television, radio and online. Jamelle has covered some of Australia's highest profile cases including the ICAC inquiries into former NSW Labor Government Ministers, the Gordon Wood, Keli Lane and Jeffrey Gilham murder trials, Australia's longest running terrorism trial and the church sex abuse inquiries. She has also covered cases involving billionaire Gina Rinehart and the trial of singer Leonard Cohen’s former partner Keli Lynch in Los Angeles. Before Jamelle joined the ABC in 2002 she was a Newsreader for stations including 2GB and 2WS and the editor of My Business Success magazine. She is a published author and columnist. Follow her @JamelleWellsABC Email her Wells.jamelle@abc.net.au
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Former NSW premier Morris Iemma tells the Supreme Court he does not recall former minister Ian Macdonald seeking Cabinet approval for the coal licence he gave to Doyle's Creek Mining.
Topics: courts-and-trials, states-and-territories, sydney-2000
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Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald did not show any favour to a mining company when he granted a licence without a tender, a Supreme Court trial is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, mining-industry, industry, government-and-politics, nsw
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Former Labor minister Ian Macdonald's decision to give a mining licence to a company run by a "mate" lost New South Wales tens of millions of dollars, the Supreme Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, mining-industry, nsw
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| UpdatedA police sniper who saw gunman Man Haron Monis inside the Lindt Cafe could have shot him, an inquest into the Sydney siege hears.
Topics: police, police-sieges, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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The head of the police negotiation unit brought in during the Sydney siege was simultaneously managing four other high-risk stand-offs by phone, an inquest hears.
Topics: police-sieges, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSenior police officers agreed to let gunman Man Haron Monis speak on ABC radio in exchange for hostages, but police negotiators decided it was too dangerous, an inquest is told.
Topics: terrorism, crime, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales coroner slashes the remaining list of 40 witnesses at the Sydney siege inquest to just 17, despite objections from the victims' families.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police-sieges, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, nsw
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A Sydney siege hostage was so anxious after escaping from the Lindt Cafe she stopped breathing, while another appeared "consumed with guilt", an inquest into the attack hears.
Topics: police-sieges, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA police negotiator has told the Sydney siege inquest he felt let down during the standoff because vital information was not passed to him by commanders in charge.
Topics: crime, police-sieges, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA police negotiator who worked during the Sydney siege tells an inquest it was not his job to chase up what was happening in the Lindt Cafe after a group of hostages escaped.
Topics: police-sieges, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe inquest into the Sydney siege hears that the lead police negotiator had four weeks of hostage negotiation training over three years.
Topics: police-sieges, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe manager of Sydney's Lindt Cafe being held hostage in December 2014 texted a warning that Man Haron Monis was becoming more agitated minutes before the gunman shot him dead, an inquest hears.
Topics: police-sieges, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sydney-2000
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Police did not storm the Lindt Cafe when shooting first started because officers thought the gunman was aiming above the heads of hostages, an inquest hears.
Topics: terrorism, police-sieges, crime
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A police commander in charge during the final hours of the Lindt Cafe Sydney siege was told during a handover briefing the hostages were "jovial", an inquest hears.
Topics: terrorism, crime, police-sieges, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWitnesses are called at an inquest into the Sydney siege to resolve debate about whether the Australian Defence Force could have handled the incident more effectively than the NSW police.
Topics: terrorism, crime, police-sieges, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPolice feared a customer inside the Lindt Cafe was aiding and abetting gunman Man Haron Monis, an inquest into the Sydney siege hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPolice were concerned a girlfriend of Man Haron Monis was relaying information to him from outside the Lindt cafe, an inquest into the Sydney siege hears.
Topics: terrorism, crime, police-sieges, sydney-2000
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Police did not try to storm the Lindt cafe when the Sydney Siege started because they feared a "messy and brutal" end, an inquest hears.
Topics: terrorism, murder-and-manslaughter, police-sieges, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA senior police officer tells the Sydney siege inquest that decisions were made from a command centre where officers did not have access to live vision of the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place.
Topics: sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA psychiatrist considered the Sydney siege to be stable but deadlocked in the hours before Man Haron Monis shot a hostage dead, an inquest hears.
Topics: terrorism, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMan Haron Monis would have gone on to murder multiple hostages if the Sydney siege had not ended when it did, an inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, terrorism, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA senior police officer tells the Sydney siege inquest it was not unreasonable for hostages to expect they would walk out of the Lindt cafe alive.
Topics: police-sieges, crime, terrorism, sydney-2000
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The Lindt Cafe siege was not like a "Hollywood movie" where the gunman could easily be shot dead and all the hostages could walk out safely, Assistant NSW Police Commissioner Michael Fuller says.
Topics: police-sieges, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA senior NSW police officer in charge of the Sydney siege tells an inquest he referred upwards because he thought the Lindt Cafe incident was an act of terrorism.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, sydney-2000
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Police officers did not immediately enter the Lindt Cafe after the Sydney siege gunman declared a hostage situation because they feared a bomb might explode, an inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, police-sieges, terrorism, sydney-2000