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.
Crime by Kate Kyriacou, Elise Williams, Thomas Chamberlin 23rd Feb 2021 4:59 AM | Updated: 10:50 AM
Premium Content Police have found the bodies of two people believed to be Doreen Langham and her ex-partner Gary Hely in the ruins of a Browns Plains townhouse ravaged by fire. The bodies were found on Monday night, more than 12 hours after police and emergency services were called to the gated complex. Investigators are this morning at the scene of a double fatal house fire, sifting through the rubble of what was once a two storey brick unit in the Myola St gated community. Investigators comb through the fire ruins by shovel and hand where two bodies where found overnight in Browns Plains. PICTURE: Brad Fleet
Doreen Langham and Gary Hely, both 49, died when a blaze ripped through her townhouse, in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane, in the early hours of Monday morning.
The death of a woman suspected of being killed by her ex-partner when her home was destroyed by fire is being investigated as a “death in police operation”.
Crime by Elise Williams, Jodie Munro OâBrien, Thomas Chamberlin, Kate Kyriacou 24th Feb 2021 4:58 AM | Updated: 9:02 AM
Premium Content  Doreen Langham called police for help hours before she was killed and had provided them with a daily dossier of information - including CCTV footage - to prove her former partner was ignoring a domestic violence order. The Courier-Mail has been told a civilian worker took Ms Langham s Triple-0 call on Sunday night and tasked it as non-urgent , meaning police, who were getting a high volume of jobs, did not arrive to the Browns Plains gated complex for around three hours.