I’ve heard of going postal but this ginga was a paramedic….is that going ambo?
SUSPENDED Sydney paramedic Trent Speering fumed that the NSW Ambulance Service was run by “degenerates” and was bigoted towards redheads before shooting dead his elderly mother and himself, a court has been told.
On June 11, 2008, the 40-year-old visited his 70-year-old mother, Monica Speering, at her home in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, and shot her twice in the head before covering her with a blanket and resting her head on a pillow, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Mr Speering then killed himself, a coronial inquest into both deaths heard today.
The day after the shootings, the Daily Telegraph opened a letter to the editor from Mr Speering detailing the reasons for his actions.
John Agius, counsel assisting the coroner, outlined some of contents of the letter in the NSW Coroners Court today.
“There are two main reasons as to why I’ve taken the action I have,” Mr Agius read from the letter.
“One is that there is a lot of bigotry towards people with red hair in this workplace … and I’ve copped my share in my lifetime…
“I work for the Ambulance Service of NSW and you would be hard pressed to find an organisation more morally bankrupt, and run by a bigger bunch of degenerates if you tried.”
Mr Speering went on to say that he would kill his mother and himself.
The letter triggered a police investigation but officers arrived at the house too late.
What a shame, too late to save a ginga. I wonder if they waited till they heard the shots.
