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In the days since Kelly Wilkinson was doused in petrol and burned in her Gold Coast back yard, her killing has been repeatedly framed as a sort of unforeseeable or âunfathomableâ tragedy.
âNo one expected this to happen,â lawyer Chris Hannay, who has been representing her estranged husband, told reporters this week.
As detail now emerges about the events leading up to Wilkinsonâs death, frontline workers and criminologists say there is actually a gut-wrenching familiarity to the trajectory of her final weeks and months, as she attempted to flee from domestic abuse.
Wilkinsonâs family revealed to the Gold Coast Bulletin she had sought the help of police âalmost every dayâ since first making a domestic violence complaint in late March.
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