Australian killer John Edwards had a 24-year history of violence. Nobody stepped in to save his family
11 Apr, 2021 09:59 PM
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There are not many mysteries left when it comes to what happened to Australian teenagers Jack and Jennifer Edwards.
We know too much about their lives; the violence they suffered at the hands of their father, and the institutions that failed to protect them before he gunned them down in their own home.
We know too about the extraordinary grief of their mother Olga, who, five months later, took her own life in the Sydney house where her children died, unable or unwilling to go on without them.
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Mystery behind evil dadâs horror note Jack, 15, and Jennifer, 13, were killed by their father at their West Pennant Hills home on July 5, 2018.
Crime by Lane Sainty 12th Apr 2021 5:12 AM There are not many mysteries left when it comes to what happened to Jack and Jennifer Edwards. We know too much about the lives of these Sydney teenagers, the violence they suffered at the hands of their father, and the institutions that failed to protect them before he gunned them down in their own home. We know too about the extraordinary grief of their mother Olga, who took her own life in the house where her children died five months later, unable or unwilling to go on without them.
On 5 July 2018, Olga came home from work to find John had killed their teenage children.
This week, state coroner Teresa OâSullivan found that a series of critical âerrors and omissionsâ made by police, firearms registry staff and a family court lawyer in New South Wales allowed Edwards, a man with a decades-long history of domestic violence, to murder his children.
OâSullivan again raised questions about how the family law system operates, only months before it is set to undergo its most significant transformation since the family court was established in 1975.
But the Morrison governmentâs plan to establish a single point of entry to the court system â which currently shuffles cases between the federal circuit court and family court based on their complexity, often causing delays and subsequent increases in costs â will not address the family law systemâs many serious deficiencies, according to multiple people spoken to by Guardian Austral
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