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Robert Farquharson’s name has been removed from the headstone of his three children, whom he murdered in 2005

Triple murderer Farquharson loses claim over gravesites of children he murdered​


Robert Farquharson has been stripped of his control over the gravestones of the three children he murdered when he drove a car into a dam in 2005, after a Victorian government intervention.

Farquharson is the first convicted person in Victoria to lose the rights over a family member’s gravesite after legislative changes in 2021. It comes almost two decades since he deliberately drove his three children into a dam in south-western Victoria, in an act of revenge against his ex-partner for leaving him.
 
Convicted Murderer Loses Grave Rights in Landmark Victoria State Ruling

In a landmark decision, Victoria, Australia, has stripped the rights of convicted murderer Robert Farquharson over the graves of his three young sons. Farquharson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 33 years for driving his children, Jai, Tyler, and Bailey, into a dam in 2005, had maintained control of the children's gravesite. This is the first time a criminal has had such rights revoked under a new state law
 

Robert Farquharson, convicted of murdering his three sons, set to launch a fresh appeal to overturn his conviction​


An infamous child killer, imprisoned for life for murdering his three sons, is preparing a fresh court appeal making use of new laws introduced in Victoria four years ago.
 

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