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He said his father had realised Mr Hancock was under threat but didn't
consider himself a target for the Gypsy Jokers.
"Perhaps if he had been warned by the police he would have heeded it,"
Bradley Lewis said.
Mr Lewis also wanted to know how the Gypsy Jokers obtained personal
information about his father from a government department.
Detective sergeant Brian Cross was in charge of assessing the risk posed to
Mr Hancock in a police operation called Operation Deeds and rated Mr Hancock
as "major risk".
He said Mr Lewis and other associates were not considered to be at threat.
During the operation, Detective Sergeant Cross understood the Gypsy Joker
gang wanted to kill either Mr Hancock, his son Steven, or his wife,
Elizabeth.
"There was no intelligence to lead me to believe there was a threat to any
other person outside the Hancock family," Detective sergeant Cross told the
Perth Coroner's Court.
Police intelligence suggested Mr Hancock was likely to be attacked with
baseball bats and urged him to travel with other people to reduce this risk.
The inquest continues.
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