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This is a story of intimidation and stalking, of threats and reprisals played out slowly, over days and weeks, months and years, as Baxter courted Hannah, promised in a lavish wedding ceremony to look after her, ran three gyms with her and began raising a family with her. The murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children made international headlines on February 19 this year, but it’s not a story of violence that unfolded in a few minutes on a Brisbane street. He did not live to witness the incredible strength of Hannah, who despite burns from head to toe, gave police at the scene, and again in hospital, a detailed account of what had happened. “Hannah kept asking, ‘Are my kids okay?’ and saying, ‘Call my mum,’ ’’ the woman told Sue.īaxter then stabbed himself to death with his knife. Another woman grabbed the hose and continued to douse Hannah, staying with her until she was lifted into the ambulance. A second neighbour, who ran out of her home carrying a fire extinguisher, told Sue that “she looked at him and saw pure evil’’. “ told her to drop and roll on the ground while he hosed her,’’ Sue Clarke says.īaxter got out the other side of the car, knife in hand, screaming at those who were running towards the car, to “get away and let her burn’’. The neighbour told Lloyd and his wife Sue how he tried to open the door how Baxter set the car on fire how Hannah was able to escape. “He had her in a bear hug and she was struggling to get away,’’ Hannah’s father Lloyd Clarke recalls the neighbour telling him. Seeing a neighbour washing his car, she drove across the street towards him, screaming out the window that her tormentor had covered them in petrol. Hannah turned the first corner, a knife at her throat, with the children who turned her world cowering in the back seat. There he doused them in fuel and ordered Hannah to drive towards Whites Hill Reserve, a 170-hectare tract of bushland nearby.
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Six days later Baxter did just that, ambushing Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey outside her parents’ Camp Hill home as they climbed into the car for the morning school run. “I think he’s going to take them out,’’ Brooks told the female police officer sitting opposite her. With Farmer’s third, Charlie, 11, away at school camp, the girls had monopolised the Barbie cubby house, while Max dressed Trey up in a Hulk costume.Ī few kilometres away, another close friend, Nikki Brooks, was giving an affidavit to support a long-term protection order that Hannah wanted against Baxter. The children Hannah shared with her husband Rowan Baxter – Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and son Trey, 3 – were playing upstairs with two of Farmer’s children, Heidi, 5, and Max, 8. I don’t think he’s going to kill the kids, but I think he’s going to kill me.’’ Friends since Hannah sold Farmer a pair of running shoes in 2015, the young mothers were sitting in the kitchen of Farmer’s home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Holland Park West. “Lou, I think he’s going to kill me.’’ Hannah Clarke looked up from the glass of red Lou Farmer had just finished pouring. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size