Inquests hears of chilling note found with Charmaine McLeod after Kingaroy Crash trends now
An inquest into the deaths of a mother and her four children has heard police believed the fatal car crash was 'in retaliation' to proceedings in the family court.
A note found in Charmaine McLeod's handbag after the crash read 'blame the courts, not enough help for domestic violence victims and kids' which Detective Senior Constable Lisa O'Leary said was central to the theory.
Ms McLeod, 35 and her children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, Wyatt, 4, and Zaidok, 2, were killed when her small SUV was involved in a head-on collision with a truck on May 27, 2019, on the Bunya Highway at Kingaroy northwest of Brisbane.
The inquest into the crash and circumstances leading up to it began in the Brisbane Coroner's Court on Wednesday.
Ms McLeod, 35, and her children (pictured) died when her Nissan SUV hit a truck head-on on a country Queensland road in May, 2019
Wyatt, Ally, Zaidok and Matilda (pictured l-r) lived like 'princes and princesses' before the crash a friend said
Barrister Emily Cooper who is representing the Commissioner of Police asked Sen Const O'Leary about the eight-page note.
'You've made reference there to interpretation of information provided by the family law court as the causation for the traffic accident among other things,' she asked.
'For the sake of clarity page seven … (of Ms McLeod's note) … it says, does it not ''blame the courts, not enough help for domestic violence victims and kids''.
'Did that play a major role in your conclusion in your report as I've just read out?'
Det Const. O'Leary said that it had.
The inquest also heard police did not pursue an allegation of sexual abuse against Ms McLeod's former partner James McLeod.
On the second day of the inquest in Brisbane on Thursday, testimonies from two of Ms McLeod's friends and a childcare worker were heard.
One friend said they overheard a female police officer tell Ms McLeod that an investigation would not continue into an allegation that her
