Police have defended their failure to act to stop a Gold Coast man from killing his daughter, ex-fiancée and her friend, saying they did not believe he would be capable of violence.
Tania Simpson, 31, told police that her estranged former partner Paul Rogers had been acting erratically and stalking her since their relationship ended in October 2010.
But an inquest heard that police and even Ms Simpson herself did not think he was capable of murder.
“I think she herself didn’t think he was capable certainly of carrying out any acts of violence,” Senior-Constable Kayleen James said.
An inquest today heard that Rogers killed former partner Tania Simpson, 31, and her friend Antony Way, 33, in a “frenzied” stabbing attack in her apartment in the Gold Coast suburb of Robina in May 2011.
Rogers then snatched his daughter Kyla from her bed and drove her to bushland near Casino in NSW, where he gassed her with carbon monoxide.
Despite the kidnapping taking place on the night of May 15, police did not issue a child abduction alert until later the next day, the inquest heard.
But Detective Senior-Constable Kayleen James defended the delay, saying the alert could not have been issued earlier because information had not been verified.
The inquest continues.
Sources: Nine News, The Courier-Mail
Author: Nick Pearson, . Approving editor: Matthew Henry.
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