ALMOST three days on from the Sydney hostage drama that took the lives of two of those held in a Martin Place cafe, further details of their frightening ordeal have emerged.
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Hostages have told how they made the decision to try to escape as they came to the desperate conclusion that they would be killed by their captor, Man Haron Monis.
But with those details comes the recriminations — authorities are under pressure to explain how Monis could have been granted bail, given his long criminal history and his well known links to extremism.
The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was yesterday the target for questions after he said Monis had a gun licence and police said they did not believe that was the case.
In contrast to those recriminations and questions, there has been a constant outpouring of grief at the Sydney shrine to the victims, with thousands of tributes left to Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson, and strangers standing in solidarity with their friends and family.
The offering of tributes is ongoing and the sea of flowers continues to grow.
If there is a positive to this tragedy it is the coming together of those who, in other circumstances, would not do so.
