‘I MISS THEM’

THE wife of a man who killed their two young children and then took his own life by dousing his car in petrol and crashing into a wall at high speed has called for a review of certain aspects of mental health care.

Una Butler spoke out at an inquest into the deaths of her husband, John, aged 43, and their two daughters, Zoe, 6, and Ella, 2.

Mr Butler, an unemployed builder, had been a Mental Health Services outpatient from November 2009 until he was discharged from care in August last year — just three months before strangling one of his daughters, suffocating the other and then taking his own life by deliberately crashing his car at high speed less than 1km from the family home.