Aussie mum’s heartbreak after her evil ex murdered her kids for revenge
Dionne Fehring, 52, shares her heartbreaking story with Take 5…
Speeding into the driveway, I looked at my phone to see 76 missed calls from my partner, Jayson.
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Hands shaking, I pulled my 12-week-old son Patrick out of his baby seat and handed him to my mum, Julie, before grabbing my daughter Jessie, 17 months, out of the car.
“Quick!” I shouted as I heard Jayson’s van pull into the driveway. “Get in the house.”
It was March 2004, and for most of our three-year marriage , Jayson had subjected me to emotional torture and brutal beatings.
That afternoon, Jayson had called me from work.
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“Tonight’s the night,” he told me cryptically. “It’s on.”
He didn’t elaborate further, but his words made me fear for my life given how violent and temperamental he was.
I knew, then, that I had to escape him for good.
I’d met Jayson through an internet chat site in 1999 when I was 28 and things were perfect at first.
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Our relationship began in a whirlwind where he had moved in within eight weeks. He was charming, strong and attentive.
After six months, he proposed.
Three days before our wedding in September 2001, he got so angry that he punched the car windscreen and shattered it.
With the wedding so close, I hoped it was a one-off incident and things would soon calm down.
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But I was wrong.
His violence and coercive control only got worse as time went on.
For a long time I feared that one day he might attempt to kill me.
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Having twice breached violence orders the police had taken out against him on my behalf, I feared for mine and my two children’s lives and I did what any protective mother would: flee.
So that afternoon in March, I’d grabbed Patrick’s nappy baby, bundled him into his car seat and raced to daycare to pick up Jessie before driving down from Brisbane to Mum and her partner Paul’s place on the Gold Coast.
Jayson must have been reading my mind, because when I didn’t answer any of his calls, he followed me.
Despite our best efforts to lock him out of Mum’s house, he got in through a side door into the garage.
