Camp Hill horror: Dad’s shocking last video
It looks like any regular family video - a father playing rough with his kids. But after the man today set his estranged wife and kids on fire - killing the three children - footage of his baby son in a head lock and slammed face-first into a bed makes for confronting viewing. VIDEO
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It looks like any regular family video - a father playing with his kids.
But today after the man doused his estranged wife and three young children in petrol and set them on fire - killing the kids - it makes for confronting viewing.
In the video, Brisbane dad Rowan Baxter, built with a footballer’s frame for knocking people around, is doing exactly that with his children.
The manhandling of the youngsters is rough.
He grabs Trey, just a toddler in a nappy, by the neck and slams his head into a bed.
It’s not violent but it’s uncomfortable to watch.
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His daughters Laianah, 4, and Aaliyah, 6, are all giggles and seem to be enjoying it.
But in the end it’s too much for Trey, 3, who walks off crying after being knocked down by dad.
Baxter posted the video on January 6 as his family life was falling apart.
“Sweet dreams my babies xo. Love you to the moon and back,” he wrote on the video Facebook post.
Baxter and his three children died at the scene after a car was deliberately set alight at Raven St in Camp Hill this morning.
His estranged wife Hannah was seen leaping out of the burning car screaming “he’s poured petrol on me”.
Baxter was a former NZ Warriors squad member and worked as a fitness coach along with Hannah at their gym Integr8 Fitness in Capalaba.
A major investigation is underway into the incident.
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