“I cannot comprehend how he could sacrifice being a father and husband to become Australia’s most wanted fugitive,” she said.
“I was shocked to learn that he had weapons and was armed, and that events played out the way they did in front of his wife and children, putting them at risk and how traumatic that would have been for them to witness.
“Dez has wreaked havoc and evil to so many, and for what?”
Freeman contacted his sister just three days before the shooting in Porepunkah with photos of his youngest son, she said.
But the pair had been estranged.
“We were not close,” she said, adding that her late parents would have been “horrified” at the events which led to Freeman’s death.
She also described Freeman’s wife Amalia and children as “beautiful people”.
Freeman spent seven months in hiding after killing police officers Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart in Porepunkah on August 26.
The double police killer died in a volley of gunfire on Monday about 8.30am following a three-hour stand-off.
Police are now investigating whether Freeman had any help evading capture during his time on the run.
”We will be speaking to anybody who we suspect may have assisted him to avoid detection or arrest,” Victoria’s Police Commissioner Mike Bush said after Freeman’s death.
He pledged to bring charges against anybody complicit in Freeman’s flight.
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