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Fourteen months after their daughter, Hannah and their three grandchildren, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were murdered, Sue and Lloyd Clarke have revealed they plan to set up gated communities to protect victim-survivors of domestic violence.
“Hopefully we can start organising some gated communities… So, once they leave the perpetrators, they ve got some sort of protection where it s harder for the perpetrator to get in,” Lloyd Clarke told SBS
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Six months before she was murdered, Noelene Beutel was beaten within an inch of her life; beaten so badly she ended up in hospital, her teeth cracked and her face covered in bruises.
Two Queensland police officers came to the hospital to take a statement, but Noelene wouldnât speak to them. She was antagonistic â a response borne of fear and distress. At the same time her attacker was at home, looking after their infant daughter.
So the police turned and left. According to the state coroner they âresponded poorly ⦠and wrote off the jobâ.
The forgotten victims of Australia s female killings epidemic
6 May, 2021 02:15 AM
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On Twitter, political hopeful Bethany Williams complained Australia s Prime Minister and his ministers are doing nothing about domestic violence murders. Photo / Supplied
On Twitter, political hopeful Bethany Williams complained Australia s Prime Minister and his ministers are doing nothing about domestic violence murders. Photo / Supplied
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By: Candace Sutton
In the Aussie suburbs right now, are 12 Aussie women, probably living in fear, who won t survive the next three months. Here s why.
Out in the Australian suburbs and currently alive are 12 women who will be murdered by their partners, ex-partners or a male acquaintance over the next three months.
  Chief Superintendent Brian Swan later confirmed that the call was made, saying the incident was being treated as deaths in relation to a police operation . Inquiries indicate that on the night before the fire there was a phone call made to police. Police did attend the unit at least a couple of hours before the fire, he said at the time. Deputy Coroner Jane Bentley is probing the adequacy of the police response to Ms Langham s Triple 0 call the night before the fire.    She is also examining the adequacy of the police response to Ms Langham s complaints about Mr Hely, and will recommend whether any changes to procedures or policies are needed to prevent a similar tragedy.
A man made multiple domestic violence order breaches before he and his former partner were found dead after her house was set alight in Brisbane s south, a court has heard.
Doreen Langham s body was found inside her Browns Plains unit after it was engulfed in flames in the early hours of on February 22 - a day before she d called police and asked for protection against her ex-partner Gary Hely.
Hely was also found dead in the charred unit.
Counsel assisting the coroner Kathryn McMahon told Southport Court today he d made multiple breaches of a domestic violence order (DVO) implemented on February 9 between the 14th and 17th of that month.