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Bedford killings latest: Dad charged with murder

Bodies lay in house for almost a week. - by Katherine Davison
  • 11 Sep 2018
Bedford killings latest: Dad charged with murder

A West Australian father has been charged with five counts of murder after the bodies of his twin girls, three-year-old daughter, partner and her mother were found in a home in Bedford, WA.

Anthony Robert Harvey, 24, stared at the ground and showed no emotion while the charges against him were laid out, news.com.au reported.

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Mara Harvey (pictured) was found dead inside the Bedford home

The bodies of Mr Harvey’s partner Mara, their children Charlotte, three, twins Alice and Beatrix, two, and Mara’s mother Beverley Quinn, 73, were found on Sunday 9 September.

Karratha Magistrates Court was told the children and Mara were killed on September 3, while Beverley was allegedly killed on September 4.

The named dates mean the family was dead inside their suburban Perth home for almost a week.

Mara has been described as a ‘beautiful person’ and a hardworking ‘go getter’.

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Police attend the scene in Bedford

In tributes posted to social media, old school friends of the 41-year-old mum expressed their shock at her death.

‘I am in shock. There are no words,’ wrote one friend.

‘I sat next to Mara in the same form class since yr 10. Lost for words… so sad,’ wrote another.

At a press conference on Sunday, Assistant Commissioner Paul Steel said the event had sent ‘a ripple through the community of Western Australia’.

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‘This is a tragic event that will have no doubt have an impact, not only on the family and friends of the deceased, but for the whole of the community, those first responders who were faced with attending a scene with multiple deceased people,’ he said. 

Anthony Harvey is due to appear in court again via video link on September 19.

This article originally appeared on New Idea.

Katherine Davison
Katherine is News and Features Director for New Idea and a real-life specialist with 17 years of experience in Australia and the UK

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