Ashley Newton BRYANT

AKA Ash Bryant

Late of ?

Brother to NSWPF Member Jason William BRYANT # 26101 ( R.I.P. )

NSW Goulburn Police Academy Class # 236

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 25603

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on 9 May 1988 ( aged 18 years, 11 months, 6 days )

Probationary Constable ( # 60233 ) – appointed 29 July 1988 ( aged 19 years, 1 months, 26 days )

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( YES )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank:  Detective Sergeant – Retired – Hurt on Duty 6 December 2012

Stations:  Manly, TRG North Region, Manly, Moree, Kempsey, Port Macquarie,
The Rocks, Special Crimes, City Central, Unsolved Homicide, Homicide Squad, Bourke, Ballina

Service:  From 9 May 1988 to 6 December 2012 = 24 years, 6 months, 27 days Service

Age at Retirement:  43 years, 6 months, 3 days

Time in Retirement:  1 year, 0 months, 10 days

In Service Awards:  Detective – 1 March 2000
Bachelor of Policing (Investigations), CSU – 25 October 2002
Detective Sergeant – 9 January 2007
Statement of Attainment in Bachelor of Laws (Posthumous) – 12 April 2014

Awards:  No find on It’s An Honour

Born:  Tuesday 3 June 1969

Died on: Monday 16 December 2013

Cause:  Suicide stemming from PTSD – Jump

Event location:  Minyon Falls, Border National Park, NSW

Age:  44 years, 6 months, 13 days

Funeral date:  Saturday 21 December 2013 @ 11am

Funeral location:  Innes Gardens Memorial Park Crematorium, Phillip Charley Drive, Port Macquarie.

Buried at:  Cremated

* Stemming from the continued work of the wives of four Fallen NSW Police to Suicide – those four names will now be included in the newly refurbished NSW Police Wall of Remembrance, Sydney, as of 2017

Congratulations to those family members who fought the fight to right this wrong.

Inquest:  initially set for 5 days, 18 – 22 May 2015, at Downing Centre Courts, Sydney & being led by the State Coroner, Michael Barnes. 

Now set for 4 days 29 Feb – 3 March 2016 at Glebe Coroner’s Court, Sydney, by State Coroner, Michael Barnes.

Feb – March 2016 vacated at family request. 

Now scheduled for 25 – 29 July 2016, 

Coroner was unavailable for the scheduled Inquest of 25 – 29 July

New Inquest date is from Wednesday  26 April 2017

at Glebe Coroner’s Court, Sydney, by State Coroner, Michael Barnes.

Date of Coronial findings – Tuesday 17 October 2017.  Result

With regret I advise the death of Ashley Newton BRYANT, 44 old, former Regd. No. 25603, a non-member of Port Macquarie.

Ashley passed away on 16/12/2013 and his funeral is proposed to be held at 11am on Saturday 21st Instant at Innes Gardens Memorial Park Crematorium, Phillip Charley Drive, PORT MACQUARIE.