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Sascha Wil­son

Fol­low­ing a sec­ond do­mes­tic-vi­o­lence mur­der-sui­cide in un­der a month, ad­vo­cates are rais­ing ur­gent ques­tions about whether po­lice and so­cial-ser­vice sys­tems are work­ing—or fail­ing those at risk.

The lat­est tragedy in­volved 36-year-old An­gel Lutch­man, who was killed by her part­ner, Shaz­ard Mo­hammed, who then took his own life at Lutch­man’s Clax­ton Bay home.