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Cheryl Goodenough

Cops could have stopped DV deaths: coroner

Gary Hely started a fire in Doreen Langham's house intending to kill both of them. (AAP)

A coroner investigating the deaths of a woman and her ex-partner in a fire he started has called for urgent reforms to address the "inadequate response" of Queensland police to domestic violence.

Doreen Langham died after Gary Hely started a fire intending to kill the 49-year-old and himself, and set alight her townhouse in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane, on February 22, 2021.

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