00:00Dressed in red, it was Lynne Cannon's favourite colour.
00:06Side by side, her sisters and loved ones walked into the coroner's court, hoping for answers.
00:11What we're hoping for today is that those individuals have the humility to be able to admit their failures
00:19and that Lynne can become the face of change.
00:22A day after her 51st birthday, Lynne Cannon was stabbed to death by her former partner, Paul,
00:28who was sentenced to life in prison last year.
00:31The night she was killed, her sister had alerted police of Mr Cannon's threats to kill Lynne
00:36and asked for an urgent welfare check.
00:39But the job was downgraded from a priority two to a three.
00:42The inquest was told a witness to the stabbing called triple zero and a single paramedic was sent to the scene.
00:48Five calls made by that paramedic to police went unanswered.
00:52When a police car was dispatched, it was diverted to another job before being diverted back.
00:57Officers finally arrived at 8.44pm, four minutes after Ms Cannon was declared deceased.
01:03She could have been with us had people just listened and acted on those calls that were made.
01:08The court heard Ms Cannon's sister had given the wrong street number and called again to correct it,
01:13but that information was not passed on.
01:15Detective Sergeant Reeve Shelhott from Police Internal Affairs told the court
01:19that officer had been found negligent and was sanctioned.
01:22But he also confirmed the decision to downgrade the job was appropriate,
01:26which was also supported by Detective Teagan Mills from the Homicide Squad.
01:30Detective Mills testified that the initial call to police did not raise concerns
01:34that Ms Cannon may have been held hostage by her estranged husband,
01:38receiving gasps from family and friends in the gallery.
01:41She said everyone did the best they could with the information provided,
01:45and that if anyone could have prevented what happened that night, they absolutely would have.
01:49It was a tsunami of pain unleashed on family, friends, even the people who she worked for.
01:56You know, the ripples after Lynne was gone, the devastation it caused,
02:03it was just, yeah, I mean, that's why we're here today.
02:07The inquest is set to continue this week.
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