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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Adeshola Ore

Triple murderer Farquharson loses claim over gravesites of children he murdered

Robert Farquharson in 2007 at his trial for the murder of his three children.
Robert Farquharson in 2007 at his trial for the murder of his three children. He was convicted of the triple murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 33 years. Photograph: Getty Images

Robert Farquharson has been stripped of his control over the gravestones of the three children he murdered when he drove a car into a dam in 2005, after a Victorian government intervention.

Farquharson is the first convicted person in Victoria to lose the rights over a family member’s gravesite after legislative changes in 2021. It comes almost two decades since he deliberately drove his three children into a dam in south-western Victoria, in an act of revenge against his ex-partner for leaving him.

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