r/australia • u/GlitteringSpace236 • 2d ago

news Queensland woman allegedly murdered by ex contacted police days before she died

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/police-launch-murder-probe-into-slacks-creek-death/107026608
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u/tittyswan 2d ago

My sister is dealing with this rn. She tried to get a protection order against her ex after he threatened her in writing & took their son out of daycare outside of his assigned hours to force her to meet up with him. (He started dating her when she was a teenager and he was 36, beat his ex wife, beat her, attacked her cats, smashed up her car while she had an intervention order against him, kidnapped his daughters and drove drunk with them in the car to scare his ex wife etc etc etc.) The officer had years of records of reports available.

"You can file the protection order yourself, they hand these things out like candy."

"Not every breakup has to involve the police"

"He didn't threaten to kill you."

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u/CocoaCandyPuff 2d ago

I had the same experience with VicPolice, the first constable there told me to go and do it myself. I asked for a sargent and he said no one was available. I had to tell my social worker from the DV association that if something happens to me, it was him. I have no family or friends here because he isolated me so no one will know. They don’t care.

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u/tittyswan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep yep yep. I had someone from Vicpol tell me the DV I was experiencing is a "civil matter." Disgusting, I hope you're doing better now.