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John Edwards, 67, fatally shot his children Jennifer, 13, and Jack, 15, in July 2018
Olga, the children s mother, killed herself five months after the murder-suicide
Coroner said teenager s deaths were preventable after errors by authorities
Police failed to make inquiries after mother reported abuse by her husband
Gun registry staff also granted him permits and license to shoot and buy pistols
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A wholly inadequate NSW Firearms Registry failed to perform its key responsibility when it granted gun licences to John Edwards, who shot dead his two children, a coroner has found.
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She said the deaths of Jack and Jennifer Edwards were preventable
The inquest examined how John Edwards was granted gun permits and licences despite his history of domestic violence
Jack and Jennifer Edwards were killed by the 67-year-old in July 2018, after he stalked his daughter to the West Pennant Hills home they shared with their mother Olga Edwards.
Five months later, their grieving mother took her own life.
A father who brutally murdered his children has had his violent 18-year history with police detailed in a family colonial inquest.
John Edwards, 67, killed Jack and Jennifer Edwards in Pennant Hills, Sydney s north-west, in July 2018 after following his daughter home from school.
Edwards then killed himself at his rented home near Normanhurst on the night of the murders. Five months later, the children s mother, Olga, took her own life.
The inquest heard Edwards, then 50, met Olga online before travelling to Russia to meet her. She was just 19-years-old at the time.
He then brought the teenager back to Australia and married her, where nearly two decades of abuse began.
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