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Qld Coroner to reopen case featured in Sunday Night

Report by Denham Hitchcock claims to have new evidence that a 1996 death was no accident.

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath has directed the State Coroner to reopen the inquest into the death of 24-year-old Jeffrey Brooks in March 1996 following “new credible and independent evidence”.

The case is featured in a Sunday Night report by Denham Hitchcock which claims to have new evidence that Brooks’ death was no accident.

Hitchcock said: “For 22 years, Wendy and Lawrie Brooks have been telling people their son was murdered. We listened.  Sunday Night’s investigation will not just retell a story, it will provide answers. We’re beyond pleased at the announcement the coronial inquest will reopen and our thoughts are with the Brooks family.”

The newly-married marine biologist was found with a gunshot wound to his chest on a crayfish farming property he was investigating.

Early on, police concluded Brooks’ shot himself by accident. And in 1998, an inquest handed down an “open finding”.

But Brooks’ family has no doubt it was murder and they’ve been lobbying for years for the case to be reopened.

With the help of a team of forensic experts and the latest world-class technology, Sunday Night conducts new ballistic tests and the explosive results paint a very different picture of how Jeffrey Brooks died.

Sunday at 8.15pm on Seven.

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