W itnesses recall seeing a woman and two children crying out “no, stop”. A man carrying a small girl to his car. Her head banging into the door as he bundled her into a seat. No time to fasten her seatbelt.

“You have caused all of this, it’s your fault,” Rowan Baxter said to his estranged wife, Hannah Clarke, as he drove off with their daughter, Laianah, on Boxing Day 2019.

Eight weeks later Baxter filled a jerry can with petrol, poured it into the family car and set it alight. The children – Aaliyah, six, Laianah, four, and Trey, three – were killed instantly and Baxter took his own life soon afterwards. Clarke died in hospital from her injuries.

View image in fullscreen Hannah Clarke and her three children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were murdered by her estranged husband

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