A father who killed his baby daughter at the Whispering Wall had told his ex-partner that he wanted to take Kobi to the tourist attraction a month before the murder-suicide, an inquest has heard.
Baby Kobi's father Henry Shepherdson told his ex-partner he wanted to visit the Whispering Wall from a phone call he made in prison.An inquest has heard a father who killed his baby daughter at the Whispering Wall spoke about taking her to the site months before the murder-suicide.Nine-month-old Kobi Shepherdson was killed when her father, 38-year-old Henry Shepherdson, took her to the Barossa Valley tourist attraction in April 2021.
"I knew what this meant and I said 'please don't do this', I said 'she's just nine months old you can't do this'. "He wasn't suicidal at the time he told me but he said if he thought he had no other way out that's what he would do."When I left Kobi with Henry on that day I had no reason to believe Henry was planning to take his and Kobi's life."
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