Boy watched his mum/brother drown in floodwater as 000 staff dismissed their plea

Footage has revealed how police grilled a grieving 11-year-old boy Blake Rice (pictured) who watched his mother and brother drown in Queensland floodwaters six years ago.

Jordan Rice, 13, died along with his mother in Toowoomba, in south-east Queensland, during the 2011 floods, which killed 35 people.

Jordan, his brother Blake, and mother Donna were trapped on the roof of their family’s car at an intersection by rising floodwaters.

An investigation into the accident blamed the mother for recklessly driving into floodwaters.

It also cleared the triple-0 worker who slammed the mother’s decision to drive through the water and assigned the family the lowest priority for help.

But footage of a police interview with Blake Rice obtained by The Weekend Australian has shed new light on the accident and revealed how police grilled the young boy only days after he watched his mother and brother drown.

Blake, who is now 17, said the family have spent six years trying to clear his mother’s name.

‘It’s been six years of struggle, to prove what they already knew,’ he told The Weekend Australian.

Source: Police interrogate boy who lost family in Queensland flood | Daily Mail Online