A domestic violence order was broken 84 times a day on average in Queensland in 2019, police statistics show. A total of 30,796 domestic violence protection orders (DVO) were breached last year, an average of four an hour and almost five times as many as the 2001 figure. Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke was driving her three young children to school on Wednesday morning when her estranged husband, Rowan, doused his family in petrol and lit them on fire. Ms Clarke and her three children – Laianah, Aaliyah and Trey – all died. Police have confirmed domestic violence orders had been taken out during the couple's break-up. The shocking act of violence shows that for some women, a DVO does nothing to stop a deadly attack. Brock Wall was sentenced to two terms of life in prison after murdering his ex-girlfriend, Fabiana Palhares, with an axe and jumping on her stomach to kill their unborn child at their Varsity Lakes home in 2015. Wall had two domestic violence protection orders made against him at the time. Another Gold Coast woman, Tara Brown, was bludgeoned to death by the father of her child, Lionel Patea, in 2015 with a 7.8-kilogram metal fire hydrant cover. Ms Brown had been hiding from him at a safe house and friends' homes since taking out a DVO just days earlier. Across the state in 2001, there were 6500 DVO breaches, compared with 30,796 in 2019 – an increase of 374 per cent. Police Minister Mark Ryan said he hoped the government could continue to look for ways to stop domestic violence because "it has to stop". "Three innocent children and their loving mother gone – gone for inexplicable reasons. "I hope, like so many others do, that we can continue to look for ways to stop this, because it has to stop." #FACAA #ProudFACAA #DVO #DomesticViolence #QLD #QLDPOL #QLDPolice #Legal #Law #Crime #TrueCrime #Criminal #GuardiansOfTheInnocent #foryourpage #f #fyp #foryou #viral
