Justice for the families of those on board MH17 would be an arduous 8-and-a-half-year journey and the AFP would not let them go through it alone. The AFP’s Family Investigative Liaison Officers (FILOs) would become a lifeline for grieving Australian families, providing support and a single point...

With the threat of conflict resuming at any moment, AFP investigators and their JIT partners were desperate to secure evidence that would help identify the last remaining MH17 victims and bring them closer to the truth of exactly what happened... and who was responsible.

As heartbroken next of kin were desperate to bring their loved ones home, AFP officers were racing against the clock to recover bodies from the volatile MH17 crash site and move them to a safe location for identification and repatriation..