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Fearing for her life and ignored by police: Tara’s terrifying final days
Thursday January 28, 2021
A Queensland coroner has found Gold Coast police failed to appropriately respond to a young mother’s desperate plea for help days before her ex-partner ran her off the road and bashed her to death with a metal plate in 2015.
Tara Brown, 24, was killed by her ex-partner Lionel Patea in a horrific domestic violence attack after she dropped their three-year-old daughter off at day care in Molendinar on September 8, 2015.
Patea pursued and ran Ms Brown’s car off the road before he bashed her almost 30 times to the face and head with a steel water hydrant…
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