Ashley Aldridge

For people that aren't familiar with it, it was a farm and it was on a main road called the Murray River Road, which you can see the property from the road, but there wasn't anyone living there at the time.

There were shipping containers and other sort of outlying buildings there.

So police have set up surveillance over two days until they could really confirm that the person at that property was in fact Freeman.

And it was on the Sunday that they were able to cite him and confirm that it was Desi Freeman.

Yeah.

So Sunday they get confirmation that that is the man that they are after.

And then Monday morning, so the following morning at around five, just before 5.30, they move into that property and they set up that cordon around that shipping container that he had been hiding out in.

So we learned yesterday that two days after the fatal shooting of the two police officers in Pawpunka, a warrant was actually issued in the Wangaratta Magistrates Court for his arrest.

Now, that warrant was for the two murders of the police officers, Detective Leading Senior Constable Neil Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim Devant Hotat.

Interestingly, though, we also learned that that warrant included the arrest for the attempted murder of two other police members.

We know that the third police officer was shot in the leg and critically injured in Pawpunka.

And then there was another officer that was also injured on August 26 last year.

Yeah, that's right.

So this was a shipping container that was 40 foot long.

It was quite kitted out for someone to live in quite roughly, it's fair to say.

It had a sliding door at one end and a makeshift veranda sort of at the front of it.

And as I said, it was on this farming property that...

No one was living in at the time, but we saw in pictures of that shipping container, it was almost like a camp set up.

There were cooking facilities outside and there was a solar panel.

So we were able to see, I guess, how he was able to live there at that time.