A cowardly cop killer

Stuff reports:

A police officer has died after a car “being used as a weapon” hit her and a colleague, in a New Year’s Eve incident in Nelson.

After hitting the two officers, the vehicle allegedly returned and rammed a police car with an officer and a member of the public inside.

After due process and a trial, the driver should be sentenced to life without parole. They tried to kill multiple police officers.

The victim was named as Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming, age 62.

She is the 34th police officer since 1890 to be killed on duty. Thoughts are with her family, friends, colleagues and wider police family.

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said at just after 2am, officers Fleming and Ramsay were on a routine foot patrol in Buxton Square carpark in Nelson when completely unprovoked, a vehicle drove towards them, at speed, hitting both of them.

By coincidence I was staying around 20 metres from Buxton Square last night, and got there not long before it happened. I was in Nelson for a friend’s 60th birthday party and after the fireworks at midnight tried to get a taxi back to Quest Nelson. The delay was so long I started walking and walked much of the six kms and got back to my room some time between 1 am and 2 am.

A terrible start to 2025.