Family violence unit officers missed opportunities to protect Noeline Dalzell before James Fairhall murdered her, Victoria’s coroner says
Victorian coroner John Cain says the response from police in the lead-up to Noeline Dalzell’s death ‘fell short of best practice’.Victorian coroner John Cain says the response from police in the lead-up to Noeline Dalzell’s death ‘fell short of best practice’.Police missed an opportunity to protect a woman who was stabbed to death by her ex-partner in front of their three children, Victoria’s state coroner has found.
Instead, Fairhall ended up moving back in with Dalzell from about Christmas 2019 after claiming he had nowhere else to go. He killed her on 4 February 2020 by reaching over their children to stab her in the neck. Fairhall is serving 25 years behind bars for Dalzell’s murder.The state coroner, John Cain, in April held a five-day inquest into her death to investigate how police and other agencies failed to protect her.
Cain noted it was possible Dalzell would have declined to engage but officers should have done more than passive monitoring in the three months between Fairhall’s release and her murder.
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