'Systemic failures' by the NSW Police, the Family Court
System and the Firearms Registry cost two teenagers their lives in
2018 – deaths that the NSW Coroner has found were entirely
'preventable.'
Jack Edwards aged 15, and his sister Jennifer, aged 13, were
huddled together, terrified, under a desk in a bedroom when they
were shot dead by their father John Edwards in July 2018.
According to witnesses, John Edwards then 'half-skipped down
the steps' of the house before driving to his own home in West
Pennant Hills, where he killed himself that evening.
The children's distressed and grieving mother, Olga,
committed suicide a few months later.
