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Alex Mitchell

Father in young son murder-suicide had DV history

Police officers discovered the bodies of a man and his young son in a house in Lismore, NSW. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A man with a history of domestic violence killed his young son in what police have described as a tragedy during a scheduled access visit.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter Thurtell confirmed the case of a man found dead in East Lismore along with his two-year-old son on Sunday was being treated as a murder-suicide.

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