Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s

When researchers in Queensland catalogued data from seven years of intimate-partner killings, they found one thing common to more than half of those cases – a victim’s own sense of fear about their impending death.

Statistically, the most reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide is to believe the victim.

Hannah Clarke had that same intuition six weeks before she was murdered.

“I have been unhappy and wanting to leave the relationship but I have been terrified of his reaction and what that would mean to our children,” she wrote in an affidavit seeking a domestic violence order.

“I believe that Rowan is totally capable of killing himself and killing our children to get back at me. This scares me beyond words.”

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