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Rex Martinich

HISTORICAL FACTS: Us man jailed over links to police shooting deaths | History Defined

Donald Day built a sniper's nest for a confrontation with police and told the Trains to do the same. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

An American man who spent a year discussing extreme conspiracies with a family behind the Wieambilla shootings has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Donald Day, 58, was arrested in the United States after a year-long investigation into his contact with Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train before the trio killed two police officers and a neighbour at their rural Queensland property.

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