/ 29 May 2024

The focus turns to police

Image source: AAP
Image source: AAP

The daughter of Mark Bombara (the man who murdered Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc in their Perth home in Floreat last Friday) says she and her mother were “repeatedly ignored, repeatedly failed” by police in the lead-up to the shooting. Ariel Bombara said she contacted police on 3 occasions about the threat her father posed and to warn them one of his handguns was missing. “I did everything I could to protect my mother,” she said. She also claims police wouldn’t issue a temporary protective order. In response, Western Oz’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch has announced an internal investigation to identify “anything that we can do to improve the way we police going forward”. Meanwhile, an expert panel’s “rapid review” into how to prevent violence against women began yesterday – it will hand down its report later this year.

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