Family and domestic violence remains firmly in the spotlight after the murder of a mother and daughter in Perth last week. Ariel Bombara's claims of being ignored by police when she repeatedly tried to warn them about her father and his guns and living in fear of him has brought back painful memories for another family whose mother was murdered by her husband a year-and-a-half ago.
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00:00 When Jackie Darley watched Arielle Bombara speak out about how she felt police failed
00:07 to heed her warnings about her father, painful memories came flooding back.
00:11 She was badly let down by the system and it seems that the system is still letting people
00:16 down and lives are still being lost.
00:19 More than an hour before police found her sister Lynne Cannon unresponsive in her Perth
00:23 home in late 2022, Jackie had tried to raise the alarm.
00:27 But when officers arrived, it was too late.
00:29 Lynne's estranged husband had already inflicted seven fatal wounds.
00:33 She's been working with WA police to try and improve their responses to domestic violence
00:38 but says she's disappointed at how they handled Arielle's case.
00:42 My mother and I made it clear that lives were at risk and we were repeatedly ignored, repeatedly
00:48 failed.
00:49 The 27-year-old says she tried to warn police about her father and his guns on three occasions
00:56 before he went looking for her mum and when he couldn't find her, he killed her friend
01:00 Jennifer Patelchus and her daughter Gretel.
01:02 They're still not listening, they're still not taking it seriously.
01:08 Police Minister Paul Papalia says while an internal investigation is underway, he's speaking
01:12 with police about what can be changed, including firearms laws currently before parliament,
01:17 even though they might not have made a difference.
01:21 Firearms aren't the only thing that needs to be considered in FDV response, but it's
01:26 a part of it.
01:28 It's one of the elements.
01:30 The investigation so far shows officers did all the right things according to the police
01:35 commissioner with Arielle's report triaged and then handed off to a third party agency.
01:40 While that's raised questions about the broader system, those on the front line want changes
01:45 made in policing specifically, like better training for officers and more support for
01:50 victims.
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