{"id":708839,"date":"2019-09-24T06:24:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/a-dads-harrowing-letter-before-murdering-wife-kids\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:24:18","slug":"a-dads-harrowing-letter-before-murdering-wife-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/a-dads-harrowing-letter-before-murdering-wife-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"A dad\u2019s harrowing letter before murdering wife, kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/a-dads-harrowing-letter-before-murdering-wife-kids\/\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1569306256_703_1430856710_1603311700-Copy-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"cry\" title=\"cry\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A YOUNG dad wrote a series of harrowing diary entries days before murdering his wife, children, and mother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Harvey, 25, bludgeoned and stabbed wife Mara, 41, daughter Charlotte, 3, and twin daughters Alex and Beatrix, 2, at the family home in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1569306257_590_harvey-e1569166855649.jpg\" alt=\" Anthony Harvey bludgeoned and stabbed to death his wife Mara along with the couple's three daughters\"\/><figcaption>Anthony Harvey bludgeoned and stabbed to death his wife Mara along with the couple\u2019s three daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1569306258_250_NINTCHDBPICT000524265374.jpg\" alt=\" He later murdered mother-in-law Beverley Quinn, pictured with grandchildren Charlotte, Alex, and Beatrix\"\/><figcaption>He later murdered mother-in-law Beverley Quinn, pictured with grandchildren Charlotte, Alex, and BeatrixCredit: FACEBOOK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then waited for Mara\u2019s mother, Beverley Quinn, 73, to arrive the next day before killing her in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey pleaded guilty to the murders at a trial in June, and the following month was sentenced to life in prison with an order that he never be released.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard Harvey waited for Mara to come home from a night shift at a local supermarket on September 3 2018 before hitting her with a piece of pipe and stabbing her to death.<\/p>\n<p>He then stabbed his daughters as they slept, with three-year-old Charlotte later found to have suffered 38 stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Beverley Quinn was killed when she arrived the following morning as she regularly did to help with childcare.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018WHY WOULD I HURT THEM?\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Days earlier, Harvey had taken Mara to a bank and gotten her to authorise him to access her bank account without her present.<\/p>\n<p>Five days after the murders, and having withdrawn \u00a321,000 from her accounts, Harvey drove 870 miles to the town of Pannawonica on the northwestern coast of Australia, where his parents lived.<\/p>\n<p>There, he confessed to his father what he\u2019d done, saying: \u201cI\u2019ve done something really wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve hurt all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve hurt them all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would I hurt them?<\/p>\n<p>His father then took him to the local police station, where he confessed.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018NO OTHER CASE COMPARABLE\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The bodies of his victims were later found at the home, covered and arranged as though they were cuddling and surrounded by the children\u2019s favourite toys.<\/p>\n<p>Handwritten notes were also found, addressed to Mara and Beverley, in which Harvey said he loved them, he was sorry, and that he would do anything to undo what had happened and thought he had lost his mind.<\/p>\n<p>A search of his car also uncovered photos of the bodies as well as journals written by Harvey, one of which was titled: \u201cThis book is intended to explain and document my journey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One entry read: \u201cTonight, I will kill my wife and bludgeon and smother my daughters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the real hunting begins \u2026 but first my loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The journals also listed what Harvey called his \u201coptions\u201d, which included leaving unannounced, divorce, \u201cmaking family disappear\u201d and \u201celiminating\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey is the first person to be handed a \u201cnever to be released\u201d sentence since changes were brought in to Western Australia\u2019s homicide laws in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>At sentencing, Justice Stephen Hall said: \u201cThere is no other case that is truly comparable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: 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