Seven has prolonged an episode of 7News Highlight to display screen on Sunday, doubling its size with a narrative on Ben Besan, the previous NSW Police Tactical Operations Unit Officer who took down terrorist Man Monis on the Lindt Cafe in 2014.

For the previous decade he has solely been often called’ ‘Officer A.’  Yesterday the NSW Coroner’s Court docket, lifted a suppression order which had prevented him from ever publicly telling his story.

This Sunday, Besant will for the very first time share his expertise of the second he got here face-to-face with evil and the emotional devastation he endured within the wake of the tragedy.

Chatting with 7NEWS Chief Reporter Chris Cause, Besant defined how the suppression order has fuelled the PTSD which value him his profession, marriage and residential: “I’m by no means one to stroll away from a battle, and I’ve been preventing for a very long time to have my title returned to me and all of the issues I can deliver and provide to individuals who undergo from the identical situation.

“That’s what I’ve been preventing so exhausting for – to be allowed to share my title and my story and put my title to my story. It’s turn into such an enormous difficulty for me to have the ability to get my title again, and with out you and Channel 7 that wouldn’t have occurred.”

Cause, who watched your complete siege unfold from Seven’s former Martin Place headquarters, stated of the court docket ruling: “This can be a beautiful victory for Ben Besant. He has fought for years to have his identification launched, and eventually the courts have backed him.

“7NEWS is proud to have helped him lastly get his identification again. It means the world to him and offers him the facility to do what he has longed to do – assist others who’re grappling with huge trauma of PTSD.”

A five-part podcast series Lindt Siege: The Untold Story shall be launched.

A narrative on a ”TikTok Killer’ will comply with within the prolonged episode.

7pm Sunday on Seven.