Questions that families of the 51 shaheed killed in the Christchurch terror attack have held for four years have finally been answered, an inquest has heard on its final day.
The coroner overlooking the Christchurch terror attack inquest says there is a "significant blind spot" between St John and its Special Emergency Response Team.
A counter-terrorism expert says St John needed to have a plan and training for a terror attack because "you don't learn to dance the night of the ball".
All front-line police officers should be trained to enter a scene with an active armed offender, an American expert in counter-terrorism has told the mosque attack inquest.
Senior Sergeant Roy Appley says he would have done all he could to reassure St John it was safe for paramedics to move forward had he known there were concerns.
The scene at the Linwood Islamic Centre following the Christchurch terror attacks was unlike anything he had been confronted by before, a community doctor who rushed to help wounded worshippers says.
The six-minute stop on the way to Linwood mosque scene on 15 March 2019 was wise as they could have gone straight into a scene of "live fire", a second specialist paramedic has told an inquest.