Floreat murders inquest: WA Police gun licensing failures reason killer Mark Bombara had handguns
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3540 stories, and number 419 of 1486 in News.Part of a bigger story
Floreat: 6 developments since Mon 9 Nov.
1WA’s top cop in charge of gun licensing has conceded extraordinary failings in the renewal process allowed Mark Bombara to keep the guns he would use to claim two lives, when he shouldn’t have had them at all.
In The West Australian’s words.2
The bigger story: Floreat
6 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 3 more since this one.
- ‘Please don’t’: Inquest hears painfully slow response to triple-zero call made by Floreat murder victim
1 newsroom. Linked by Floreat, inquest, murder
Floreat murders inquest: WA Police gun licensing failures reason killer Mark Bombara had handguns
You’re here3 newsrooms. Linked by Floreat, murder, inquest, double
- Floreat killer 'control freak' upset at marriage breakdown, court hears
1 newsroom. Linked by Floreat, court, hear
- Floreat murders reveal fatal flaw in WA gun laws, inquest told
1 newsroom. Linked by Floreat, murder, reveal, inquest, told
- Police failure allowed Floreat murderer to keep gun used in killings, inquest hears
1 newsroom. Linked by Floreat, inquest, hear
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 16
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: The West Australian, 26 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, 7NEWS, PerthNow (all Seven West Media); The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 5 |
| Tue | 8 |
| Today | 3 |
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 1.1 days
- To three newsrooms
- 1.1 days
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 4:17pm AEDT | The West Australian | 1 |
| 4:43pm AEDT | ABC News (Australia) | 2 |
| 6:49pm AEDT | The Age | 3 |
Bigger than 94% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 1.1 days; a typical News story that gets there takes 7.6 hr.



