Maria’s niece sought a DVO to protect her. Her ex-partner went out and bought an axe
‘They’re just a piece of paper,’ Maria Costigan says of domestic violence orders, almost 10 years after Tara Costigan’s brutal murder in Canberra. But do they ever help terrified women?
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Maria Costigan remembers following the ambulance. It was weaving the same path as she was through Canberra’s suburban sprawl.
It was a route Maria had taken countless times to drop in on Tara Costigan, the niece she loved like a daughter.
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