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Subscriber only THE number of serial domestic violence offenders disregarding protection orders has spiked by more than 100 on the Gold Coast in just a month. In March the city reported 368 breaches of domestic violence orders (DVOs), according to police figures. In February there was 268 reports of DVO breaches on the Gold Coast. The shock figures come after mum-of-three Kelly Wilkinson died after allegedly being set alight in her Arundel backyard about 6.40am on Tuesday. Kelly Wilkinson died after being set alight in her Arundel backyard on Tuesday. Picture: Facebook Her estranged husband Brian Earl Johnston has been charged with murder, breaching a domestic violence order and breaching bail.
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12 DVOs ignored every day
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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 up a GoFundMe page earlier this week asking for help to pay for the funeral of their beautiful angel .
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Subscriber only KELLY Wilkinson courageously left her husband after years of living in fear with her distraught family driving her to the police station almost every day to report his escalating abuse, only for her to be told to give him space . The last weeks of Kelly s life, according to her heartbroken family, were spent making desperate pleas to police for Brian Earl Johnston to be locked up - but instead, the former US Marine was granted bail on a serious assault charge. Kelly Wilkinson s family sisters Emma Wilkinson, Natalie Wilkinson, Danielle Carroll and her husband Reece Carroll, and Kelly s dad Reg Wilkinson. Picture: Tertius Pickard