Advocates for domestic violence victims and survivors in Western Australia want improvements to the systems and data used to track potential offenders and protect those at risk.
The request follows a five-day coronial inquest into the 2024 murder of Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc at the hands of Mark Bombara, which revealed police errors and missed opportunities to save the women's lives.
The state government has said it would carefully consider any recommendations from the coroner, who is due to release the inquest's findings next year.
The best way to honour the deaths of Jennifer and Gretl Petelcyzc is to ensure nobody else succumbs to the police errors and missed opportunities revealed by the coronial inquest into their shocking 2024 murders, advocates for victims and survivors of family violence say.
Mark Bombara had been looking for his estranged wife Rowena when he shot and killed her best friend Jennifer, and her teenage daughter Gretl, before turning the gun on himself in the affluent suburb of Floreat in Perth's west.
Over the past five days, the inquest heard how unheeded pleas to police for help, several Triple Zero calls left on hold and failings by the authorities to review gun licences had contributed to the tragedy.
"A critically important way to honour Jennifer and Gretl is to address the serious systematic gaps…