PM pledges additional funding to prevent domestic violence23/04/2021|4min
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged additional funding will be allocated in the upcoming federal budget for measures to prevent domestic violence after two alleged incidents this week.
He was asked on Thursday what more could be done at a federal level to prevent domestic violence after a Gold Coast mother-of-three was allegedly killed by her former husband.
A South Australian man with a history of domestic violence also jumped from a reservoir while on Wednesday while holding his daughter.
“The events that lead to this is hard to understand, and how people can take these such violent and appalling acts,” Mr Morrison responded.
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Adelaide Advertiser has revealed Shepherdson appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court just hours before his death and that of his infant child s. The Torrensville man had been accused of domestic violence related offending in December 2020, with the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court barring him from posting about his family online and coming within 200m of them. On Thursday, police said several domestic violence reports had been made previously and that court processes were underway - however, just hours before the tragedy, Shepherdson had appeared in court in an attempt to change those two court-imposed conditions. Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott spoke to the media about the murder-suicide of Henry Shepherdson and Kobi on Thursday. Picture: Brenton Edwards
Stewart Perrie
3:56 AM, April 23 2021 GMT+1
The family of Kobi Shepherdson has spoken out after the nine-month-old was involved in a suspected heartbreaking murder-suicide in South Australia.
Police believe the baby girl was strapped to her father Henry s chest on Wednesday (April 21) afternoon when he jumped off the Whispering Wall in the Barossa Valley north of Adelaide.
Henry died when paramedics arrived and Kobi was unresponsive. She was later pronounced dead.
The baby s aunt, Leisa Shepherdson Casey, has penned a devastating message on Facebook as her family grieves the tragic loss.
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Whispering Wall. Credit: denisbin (Flickr) We are completely devastated. My heart is heavy and my tears are dry, robbed in the most cruellest way of my beautiful niece Kobi, she wrote.
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Shepherdson was further charged with one count of false imprisonment. The documents allege the offences occurred on December 16 and that the victims were Kobi and her mother. Shepherdson, they allege, threatened to kill Kobi s mother, assaulted her and also prevented her from leaving the residence in which the offending took place. They further allege Shepherdson threatened to kill Kobi knowing that the victim was a child of whom he had custody as a parent or guardian . At 6.40pm that day, Shepherdson sought bail at the Port Adelaide Police Station, which was refused. In the written reasons for refusal, SA Police noted Shepherdson had two prior breaches of bail in WA .