Mum ‘struggling’ after teen kids were shot dead
THE shellshocked mother of two teenage children shot dead by their father before he turned the gun on himself is “desperately struggling” to comprehend the enormity of her loss.
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THE shellshocked mother of two teenage children shot dead by their father before he turned the gun on himself is “desperately struggling” to comprehend the enormity of her loss.
Olga Edwards, a senior associate lawyer at Brown and Partners law firm in Woolwich, on Sydney’s lower North Shore, has told colleagues she does not know how she will face life without her 15-year-old son and daughter, 13.
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“She is really struggling, desperately, she has just lost her two children and doesn’t know how she will cope.
“She is completely beside herself, we are in close contact with her, she doesn’t know what’s hit her, this is really hard for her,” senior associate lawyer at the firm David Brown told The Daily Telegraph.
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The Russian-born lawyer, who graduated in law from Sydney’s University of Technology University in 2008, was told by police at 6.30pm her two children were found dead in the bedroom off their West Pennant Hills home.
Police say John Edwards, 68, shot the two teenagers and also suffered a gun shot wound inside a home at Normanhurst.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Brett McFadden said police were doing all they could to comfort Ms Edwards.
“An extensive range of support services was being provided to the family which is having to go through this horrific experience of losing two children at the hand of another,” he said.
“What we do know from the information available to us is this was a planned activity on the part of 68 year old male and we are of the belief that shortly thereafter he has attended the address at Normanhurst and taken his own life.”
Two hand guns have been recovered from the scene at Normanhurst.
Police said there were no current AVOs in place and the father did not live at the West Pennant Hills home and he had been living at the Normanhurst home where he was found dead.
Investigating officers say the family had been involved in a custody dispute that was in the courts over the past two years and the man and woman had been in a long-term relationship.
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