NSW coroner delivers findings on deaths of Gabriella Thompson and Tafari Walton

The NSW coroner has highlighted shortcomings in police responses to domestic violence calls at an inquest into the murder of a young woman by her child’s father, who was later shot dead by police.

Gabriella Thompson was stabbed 16 times by Tafari Walton, the father of her daughter, after suffering years of domestic violence.

Their relationship was described as “toxic” and “violent” from the outset before it came to a tragic end in Lake Macquarie, north of…