‘This is our horror’: NT coroner investigates deaths of women at hands of their partners
Elisabeth Armitage is diving deep into the systemic failures that led to the death of four women through domestic violence in what she calls a ‘national shame’
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He’s “going to kill me tonight, love you so much, don’t cry for me”. These are some of the final words sent to a loved one in a text message before Kumanjayi Haywood’s partner threw petrol beneath the bathroom door, the place she was hiding from him, and set the house alight.
Haywood’s case is part of a landmark coronial inquest into the violent deaths of four Aboriginal women at the hands of their domestic partners in the Northern Territory, which resumes on Monday with a further two weeks of scheduled hearings.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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