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Robyn Wuth

Cops' 'catastrophic failure' before murder

Police camera footage showed Gary Hely claiming to be shocked to be served with a DVO. (AAP)

A desperately afraid woman murdered by her abusive former partner would still be alive if not for the "catastrophic failure" of Queensland police, a coroner has been told.

Doreen Langham died at the hands of former partner Gary Hely, both 49, in a fire in her Browns Plains townhouse, south of Brisbane, on February 22, 2021.

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