A NSW Firearms Registry manager tells an inquest she would still have granted child killer John Edwards a gun licence despite 15 domestic violence entries on his police database profile.
A NSW Firearms Registry manager has told an inquest she would still have granted John Edwards a gun licence despite 15 domestic violence entries on his police database profile.There were no written policies or procedures when John Edwards applied for a licenceThe manager supervised clerks who gave Edwards access to weapons in the form of a commissioner's permit in January 2017 — 18 months before he shot dead his teenage children Jack and Jennifer.
An inquest into the deaths has heard 15 incidents recorded on the 68-year-old's police profile — including assaults, intimidation and stalking — were essentially ignored by registry staff in assessing the application. The staff were instead focused on specific information about a past AVO and whether it was more than 10 years old, each believing colleagues would perform a complete check of Edwards's record."It's obvious that we could have placed more weight on the incidents that happened," the manager, whose name is suppressed, told the court today.
"Obviously, hindsight is a wonderful thing and we've all been quite traumatised by it … but I probably would have granted the licence as well."The witness said if she had been adjudicating on the applications she would look at the person's age, the period of time since the AVO and any reasons to refuse them on the basis the applicant was not a fit and proper person.
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