Wieambilla shooting: Stacey Train had limited contact with family after entering ‘controlling’ relationship with brother-in-law

Every year, Stacey Train's mother would call the mobile of her estranged daughter and leave a message on her birthday.

But, according to another family member, if her son-in-law, Gareth, picked up she would quickly hang up.

Stacey's parents are understood to have had limited contact with Stacey for many years, which a relative has put down to Gareth's "controlling" behaviour.

Stacey and Gareth were killed in a firefight with police on Monday, alongside his brother Nathaniel - who was also Stacey's first husband - after they shot and killed two officers and a neighbour.

Speaking to Guardian Australia, a family member of Stacey's remembers a quiet girl who was always somehow the odd one out.

While the family "all grew up in church", Stacey branched off into the independent church of Ronald A Train, her future husbands' father, on her own as a teenager.

"I wish she never did," the relative, who asked to remain anonymous, said. "This would never have happened."