Crime by Natalie Brown A week before Hannah Clarke and her three children were ambushed by her estranged husband, Rowan Baxter, on a street in Brisbane s Camp Hill, she asked her mother a devastating question. The 31-year-old - along with her daughters, six-year-old Aaliyah and four-year-old Laianah, and three-year-old son, Trey - was staying with her parents, Sue and Lloyd Clarke, after leaving Baxter - at the hands of whom she had suffered years of psychological abuse and controlling behaviour. Things like going through her phone, ringing her all through the day, checking where she was, if she d locked up the gym - he would ring her, Sue recalled in the final episode of the SBS s
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Premium Content  Even through the eyes of a six-year-old, it was obvious that Hannah Clarke was being controlled. Aaliyah the eldest would say for goodness sake daddy, mummy said sorry enough, can t you be nice to her? Hannah s mother Sue Clarke recalled. Hannah s parents Sue and Lloyd Clarke have detailed the increasing coercive control their daughter suffered at the hands of her estranged husband in the final episode of the SBS s See What You Made Me Do, a three-part series that investigates Australia s domestic violence crisis. Things like going through her phone, ringing her all through the day, checking where she was, if she d locked up the gym - he would ring her, Sue said.
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Video above: The parents of murdered woman, Hannah Clarke, who was killed along with her three children by her estranged husband, told Insight of their plan to support other at-risk women and children. Watch Insight s ep. on coercive control here.
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It was 5.00am on the 1st of May 2017 - a phone call changed our lives.
It was an officer from Morningside police station - they had our daughter with them, she d been physically assaulted by her then partner. Words no parent ever wants to hear.
My daughter had found herself in an increasingly violent relationship with an older man, whom she’d been introduced to by her first boss, after graduating from university. He was well known in the community for his work with vulnerable children. When she met him, she had felt reassured, given his reputation, that he would be a decent man. To her credit, having left another long-term abusive relationship a fe