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Hundreds gather to remember Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson at twilight vigil By Rory Callinan © Provided by ABC NEWS Kelly Wilkinson was found dead in the backyard of her Arundel home on April 20. (Facebook) The family of murdered Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson, whose charred body was found in her backyard last week, has remembered her as a "strong fierce woman" who thought that being a mother was the best job in the world. Hundreds of mourners gathered for a candlelit vigil to honour the 27-year-old mother-of-three on the Gold Coast on Monday evening. An emotional lo...

Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 14.18 EDT The Queensland police service employs fewer than 90 officers as specialists in domestic and family violence, despite case numbers rising to more than 100,000 a year across the state. As the QPS attempts to understand its own “failures” to protect murdered Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson, support services and victims’ advocates have spoken out about the chronic under-resourcing of programs designed to intervene to prevent harm to women. One of those programs involves integrated “high-risk” teams, largely led by non-government organisations...

05:47 EDT, 26 April 2021 11 shares A candlelit vigil held less than a kilometre from where Kelly Wilkinson died, allegedly at the hands of her former partner, heard that her death should be a line in the sand moment for changes to domestic violence laws. Around one thousand people gathered on the Gold Coast Titans training ground at Parkwood on the northern Gold Coast on Monday night to pay silent tribute to the mother-of-three, who was found in the backyard of her Arundel home on the morning of April 20. Attendees wore green - Kelly's favourite colour - and carried scented candles, gathe...

01:42 EDT, 24 April 2021 Kindhearted strangers have raised $200,000 for the three children of a mum who was allegedly burned to death by her estranged husband. Kelly Wilkinson's charred body was found early on Tuesday morning in the backyard of her home in Arundel on the Gold Coast, after neighbours reported hearing screams and the sound of an explosion. Her former partner Brian Johnston, 35, was found two blocks away on a front lawn in a 'semiconscious state'.  The horrific tragedy shocked the nation and prompted an outpouring of grief and anger around the globe. Her distraught family set...

The man charged with murder over the cruel death of Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson has previously faced legal issues back in the US, it can be revealed.