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Jun 21, 2024 | theage.com.au | Michael Bachelard |Ruby Schwartz

By Michael Bachelard and Ruby Schwartz June 22, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Neither the prosecutors nor the defence team in Robert Farquharson’s triple murder case obtained a psychiatric report into his mental state, despite the prosecution argument that anger and revenge had provoked him to murder his sons to punish his recently estranged wife.

Jun 21, 2024 | theage.com.au | Michael Bachelard |Ruby Schwartz

Subscriber exclusive: In the story of Robert Farquharson there’s one thing that’s the hardest to understand. By Michael Bachelard and Ruby Schwartz June 22, 2024 — 12.01am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the story of Robert Farquharson there’s one thing that’s the hardest to understand. It’s the thing the public and the media found they just couldn’t accept about him.

Jun 21, 2024 | smh.com.au | Michael Bachelard |Ruby Schwartz

"I would certainly expect to see a more serious escalation before the outcome that we saw in this case," she said. A recent four-year study, showing men who killed their past or current partner almost invariably had long histories of violence, seemed to back Mallett's analysis. In the words of the study's lead author: "these are not men for whom violence comes out of the blue". Farquharson was taking anti-depressants after the breakup of his marriage and had, at times, contemplated suicide.

Jun 14, 2024 | theage.com.au | Michael Bachelard |Ruby Schwartz |Nick McKenzie

By Michael Bachelard, Ruby Schwartz and Nick McKenzie June 15, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A key witness in the case against convicted triple-murderer Robert Farquharson has provided new information that casts serious doubt on the evidence she gave in the Victorian man’s second trial.

Jun 14, 2024 | smh.com.au | Michael Bachelard |Ruby Schwartz |Nick McKenzie

Police were also excited when Waite came forward. Brad Peters, one of the major collision investigation unit officers who worked on the case said in 2017 that it "corroborated [the police] analysis of the scene and corroborated everything that we alleged about the inputs to the steering wheel, the whole thing. It just all fit ...