NSW to criminalise secret GPS tracking after report highlighting number of devices bought by DV offenders

A 2024 report by the NSW Crime Commission identified that tracking and surveillance devices were increasingly being used to enable domestic violence and organised crime. Photograph: Karl Tapales/Getty Images

After their marriage of 25 years deteriorated and his wife expressed a desire to leave, a man in regional New South Wales bought a GPS tracking device from an auto parts retailer.

He used it to monitor her movements in the month before he shot and killed her and then turned the gun on himself – including on the day before the murder.