A coroner on Monday morning heard fresh details of the Porepunkah shooting that killed two Victoria police officers, including evidence that Dezi Freeman yelled abuse at a dying constable as the attack unfolded. The directions hearing in Victoria’s coroner’s court laid out the final moments of Det Leading Sen Const Neal Thompson, 59, and Sen Const Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 35.

The hearing said five officers knocked at the door of a converted bus where Freeman, also known as Desmond Filby, was living with his family at 9.50am on 26 August. They were there to execute a warrant after receiving disclosure of an alleged sexual assault involving a child under the age of 16 and an attempt to involve a child in the production of child abuse material. Freeman refused to come out, told police they could go to hell and described the warrant as bullshit.

What followed was a fast-moving ambush. A second officer yelled gun and ran after Thompson was shot in the face and neck. Freeman then shot De Waart-Hottart as the other officers ran and took cover behind a shipping container. He later said, “I had no choice.”

The coroner heard that Freeman returned to the bus after the shooting and swore over the bodies of both fallen officers. He yelled, “Fucking scum, die in hell,” before firing De Waart-Hottart’s firearm at Thompson again. Freeman then stepped out of the bus with two guns and fired at a third officer, injuring them, before he was last seen running down the hill towards the river.

The evidence also described the message Freeman later sent to his wife after the shooting: “Get a mile away and keep going. See you in heaven, love.” Seven months later, Freeman was shot dead by police after being found at a makeshift campsite about 150km away.

The hearing matters because it is now placing the sequence of the killings on the record in detail, with the coroner’s court examining the deaths of two officers whose families have waited months for a formal account of how the attack unfolded. The police had gone to the Porepunkah property after receiving disclosure of alleged child sexual abuse-related offending, but the confrontation ended with two officers dead, a third wounded and Freeman later killed by police far from the scene.

What remains for the court is not what happened in broad outline, but how the final seconds will be weighed when the full findings are delivered. The evidence heard Monday made one point impossible to miss: this was not a chaotic misunderstanding, but a deliberate and lethal assault on officers who arrived to serve a warrant and never left alive.