MELBOURNE POLICE LAUNCH TERROR PROBE,INVESTIGATE IF ESCORT WAS USES TO LURE OFFICERS
Brighton siege: Melbourne police launch terror probe, investigate if escort was used to lure officers. Police are investigating whether the Brighton siege gunman took an escort worker hostage in a bid to lure officers into a deadly ambush. Gunman Yacqub Khayre injured three officers during a shoot-out that ended in his death at an apartment building in Melbourne's Bayside area on Monday afternoon. The 29-year-old, who has an extensive criminal history and was released on parole in December , had made a booking with the escort worker, taken her hostage and killed a man who was working at the building. Police said it was possible Khayre, from Roxburgh Park in Melbourne's north, may have been attempting to lure police by taking the escort hostage. "We still don't know exactly whether that was the case," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said. "Certainly [there was] a booking made to see an escort at the premises. He's then turned up at the pre