Queensland’s shameful record of domestic violence order breaches has been laid bare, with damning statistics revealing they’ve doubled in the past six years despite fewer DVO applications through the courts. The revelation comes in the week Doreen Langham was killed in a house fire along...
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Top Qld cops ‘deeply saddened’ by domestic violence death
Queensland’s top cops say they “don’t know what more” Doreen Langham could have done before she was killed in a unit fire alongside her former partner. Ms Langham and her ex-partner Gary Hely, whom she had taken a domestic violence order out against in early...
Woman contacted cops ‘daily’ before death
A Queensland woman who was found dead in her home next to her ex-partner in the early hours of Monday morning has reportedly contacted police “daily” in the lead up to her death. Two bodies, believed to belong to Doreen Langham and her ex-partner Gary...
‘She did everything by the book’: Domestic violence advocates call for action in wake of Doreen Langham’s death
The death of Doreen Langham in a Browns Plains fire deemed to be “suspicious” has sparked calls for more to be done to stamp out the scourge of domestic violence. Key points: Doreen Langham and her former partner were killed in the blaze Police are...