Family of Queensland woman killed by former partner call for national domestic violence database

Doreen Langham (left), who died in an domestic violence incident south of Brisbane in 2021, with daughters Tabitha Bleys (centre) and Shayne Probert (right). Photograph: Shayne Probert

Tabitha Bleys was shocked to learn that in the two weeks before her mother, Doreen Langham, was murdered she had contact with no less than 16 police officers.

Even more distressing, she says, was the fact that not one of them checked the interstate records of Langham’s abusive ex-partner, Gary Hely.