00:00 When Jackie Darley watched Arielle Bombara speak out about how she felt police failed
00:07 to heed her warnings about her father, painful memories came flooding back.
00:11 She was badly let down by the system and it seems that the system is still letting people
00:16 down and lives are still being lost.
00:19 More than an hour before police found her sister Lynne Cannon unresponsive in her Perth
00:23 home in late 2022, Jackie had tried to raise the alarm.
00:27 But when officers arrived, it was too late.
00:29 Lynne's estranged husband had already inflicted seven fatal wounds.
00:33 She's been working with WA police to try and improve their responses to domestic violence
00:38 but says she's disappointed at how they handled Arielle's case.
00:42 My mother and I made it clear that lives were at risk and we were repeatedly ignored, repeatedly
00:48 failed.
00:49 The 27-year-old says she tried to warn police about her father and his guns on three occasions
00:56 before he went looking for her mum and when he couldn't find her, he killed her friend
01:00 Jennifer Patelchus and her daughter Gretel.
01:02 They're still not listening, they're still not taking it seriously.
01:08 Police Minister Paul Papalia says while an internal investigation is underway, he's speaking
01:12 with police about what can be changed, including firearms laws currently before parliament,
01:17 even though they might not have made a difference.
01:21 Firearms aren't the only thing that needs to be considered in FDV response, but it's
01:26 a part of it.
01:28 It's one of the elements.
01:30 The investigation so far shows officers did all the right things according to the police
01:35 commissioner with Arielle's report triaged and then handed off to a third party agency.
01:40 While that's raised questions about the broader system, those on the front line want changes
01:45 made in policing specifically, like better training for officers and more support for
01:50 victims.
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