08:50 EDT, 6 June 2021
A banker allegedly took his two children to the roadside memorial of Allison Baden Clay and the street where Hannah Clarke was set alight with her three kids in a bid to intimidate his estranged partner, a court has heard.
The father fronted a bail hearing at Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday over alleged domestic abuse offences which allegedly occurred in 2018.
The charges include choking/suffocation/strangulation in a domestic relationship and assaults occasioning bodily harm.
The court heard the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also allegedly took his nine-year-old twins to the murder sites of domestic abuse victims to exert control over his ex-partner, the Courier Mail reports.
Crime by Rachael Rosel
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