The shocking details of the death of Kelly Wilkinson were not new to us. In 2021 they horrified us all after her estranged husband, Brian Earl Johnston, was charged with the 27-year-old’s murder and the facts became known.
While out on bail for domestic violence offences, he went with a jerry can of petrol to her home in Arundel near the Gold Coast, tied her to a clothes line and, while her three children, then aged between two and nine, played nearby, he set her alight and she burned to death.
