Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 26 – EPILOGUE
This is not ‘The End’.
Some police report may well “have been prepared for the coroner”, but so ignored by the police and coroner – abrogatingly dismissed as ‘death by misadventure’. Such a media cliché is but meaningless reporting, unworthy of journalism. This article has morphed all the media guesswork and tripe.
This article, indeed if not a ‘web-book’ due to its evolved and amassed word count, has been about getting to the bottom explanations of yet another missing person in the wilds of our Blue Mountains.
In this bizarre case of Oracle’s Gary Tweddle of 2013 the outcome was a tragic death. Officially, the coroner concluded ‘death by misadventure’, but with no inquest, nor Coroners findings or reports like toxicology made public.
Yet, what of the more than 1000 local searchers over more ten ten days and most of them volunteers? Do they not deserve an explanation, some public closure by government leadership (if that exists), official appreciating for their efforts, counselling indeed, as all of us are human!
Yes of course Gary’s family deserve privacy and non-disclosure about certain personal findings uncovered by police and by the coronial process. But the what where and why of this massive searched rescue effort demands a leadership of explanation, subject to Gary’s family’s consent.
But that didn’t happen. Body found, end of story! Derelict leadership obviously.
So yet, once again, Blue Mountains folk (especially the volunteer/unpaid searchers) get left in the dark about how they/we can learn from yet another outdoors death here again.
Surely, from accumulated wisdom of outdoors missing/injuries/deaths in the Blue Mountains, all involved can learn so as a community we can build safer situations – a complex topic for another article and perhaps series of articles.
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