Glendale murder and police shooting inquest: Tafari Walton and Gabriella Thompson, a tragic life and relationship

By Sam Rigney
Updated January 19 2021 - 6:08pm, first published 5:00pm
TRAGEDY: A five-day coronial inquest in Newcastle is examining the deaths of Tafari Walton and Gabriella Thompson at Glendale in March, 2019.
TRAGEDY: A five-day coronial inquest in Newcastle is examining the deaths of Tafari Walton and Gabriella Thompson at Glendale in March, 2019.

THE parole officer tasked with supervising Tafari Walton said the 22-year-old admitted to using ecstasy and "a couple of smokes of ice" two weeks after his release from jail but he did not notify police or require him to undergo drug testing despite drug use being a breach of his bail and a risk directly related to him re-offending, a coronial inquest has heard.

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