Australian Police in New South Wales (NSW) have been told they were wrong to tear up a grandfather’s gun licence after he alerted them to a plot to steal his guns, a tribunal has found.
The school bus driver told police in 2021 that his daughter and her partner were planning to crash a vehicle into his house, steal his weapons and abduct his grandchildren.
Concerns that the burglary could eventuate led police three months later to suspend his licence for a year.
The suspension was upgraded to a full revocation after police reviewed the case, and it was discovered the man had told an MP that he would  “never report anything to the police again ever”….