James Swan Palakamannil sobbed as he recalled to a courtroom the night his wife took her life and those of their two young girls in a fatal act of family violence.
James Swan Palakamannil fondly remembers his three-year-old daughter, Carolyn, dragging a small chair to the open the front door as he arrived home from work each day.Carolyn James on her third birthday.But on March 24, 2022, the girls died in a car fire at Cranbourne West alongside their mother, Jasmine Thomas, after the nurse drove to an isolated location and poured petrol on them all in a fatal act of family violence.
Cain found Thomas and her daughters all died from the effects of the blaze, and a police investigation found a significant amount of petrol was poured throughout the car. In 2021, Thomas unexpectedly resigned from Mulgrave Private Hospital but continued casual work at Dandenong Hospital, and told family she was having issues with her marriage.“My oldest daughter, Evlyn, brought us a lot of happiness,” he said.“I watched her take her first steps, say her first words. I’d give her pep talks before bedtime … about famine and the war and how kids go hungry, about global warming and climate change ... to put a desire in her heart to … be a force for change.
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