Queensland police missed two opportunities to prevent Kelly Wilkinson’s murder, inquest hears
Reported breach of protection order ‘fell through the cracks’ before Brian Earl Johnston killed estranged wife, coroner’s court told Queensland police missed two opportunities to prevent the domestic violence murder of Kelly Wilkinson, including one where a reported breach of her protection...
<p>Reported breach of protection order ‘fell through the cracks’ before Brian Earl Johnston killed estranged wife, coroner’s court told </p><p>Queensland police missed two opportunities to prevent the domestic violence murder of Kelly Wilkinson, including one where a reported breach of her protection order “fell through the cracks”, a senior officer has told the inquest into her death.</p><p>The coronial inquest into the 27-year-old’s murder heard on Tuesday that her estranged husband, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/03/kelly-wilkinson-murder-inquest-estranged-husband-bail-ntwnfb">Brian Earl Johnston, was inappropriately granted bail</a> on a charge of rape eight days before he burned her to death on 20 April 2021.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/04/kelly-wilkinson-murder-inquest-queensland-police-missed-opportunities-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
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