"Donald Day, 58, was arrested in the US 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. Day was sentenced in the US federal court in Arizona on Thursday, after making a deal with prosecutors in October 2025 to plead guilty to a charge of possessing firearms as a convicted felon."
"The families of the two officers killed in Wieambilla said the decision marks another traumatic step in what continues to be an exhausting process. Today has brought yet another wave of extreme emotions that has left us feeling numb, they said in a statement on Friday. After time already served, he will likely spend just a few more months in jail not much considering the life sentences we've been given."
Donald Day, 58, received a three-year federal prison sentence in Arizona after pleading guilty to possessing firearms as a convicted felon under a 2025 plea deal. U.S. authorities arrested Day following a year-long probe into his online contact with Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train in the period before the Wieambilla killings. The Train brothers ambushed and killed two Queensland police officers and, with Stacey Train, fatally shot a neighbour. Prosecutors dropped earlier charges accusing Day of threatening WHO figures and FBI agents and an illegal shotgun possession count. Families of the slain officers described the sentence as another traumatic and numbing development.
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