Overview
- Police charged a 47-year-old with murdering his 46-year-old wife and their sons, 12 and 4, and a magistrate remanded him in custody on Tuesday after the three were found in their Campbelltown home Monday night.
- NSW Police said the house was a "particularly violent" scene with the victims found in separate rooms, and they said the family had not been known to police.
- Detectives from Campbelltown and the State Crime Command’s homicide squad are processing the scene and have not disclosed how the woman and children were killed.
- In Hobart, Tasmania Police charged a 56-year-old with murdering a 61-year-old woman found in their New Town residence, and investigators said she may have been dead for weeks before a relative discovered her on Saturday.
- In a separate case, five men arrived at Sydney hospitals after a Tuesday night shooting in Canley Heights that left a 28-year-old dead, and police are investigating suspected links to organised crime.