WA news LIVE: Parents who starved daughter jailed; Police failed to heed Floreat murder warnings

More on that WA Police press conference, where Police Commissioner Col Blanch outlined the findings of a damning internal report which resulted in eight officers facing disciplinary action.

Blanch said the investigation had three findings: first, that the initial risk assessment did not correctly assess the risk Mark Bombara posed to his family or others – which meant powers available under the Restraining Orders Act and Firearms Act were not exercised.

Secondly, police did not take sufficient action to find out whether Bombara was a “fit and proper person” to hold a firearms licence. Bombara legally owned 13 guns, despite his family’s fears.

And thirdly, there was insufficient action taken to investigate Bombara’s alleged firearms offences, which included a report of an unsecured firearm.

Blanch said the investigation resulted in 18 recommendations, which police were implementing alongside the government and specialists in the family violence support and services industry. So far, he said, 11 had been completed.

“Sadly, we got this one wrong, but we are committed to making sure that it is never repeated,” Blanch said.

Bombara’s daughter, Ariel, is supporting police in implementing the report’s recommendations, and also spoke at the press conference today.

“This report identifies all of the risk factors we communicated to the police; [Bombara’s] history of abuse, access to and incorrect storage of firearms, including concealable handguns, that he was escalating, that he’d had a recent stroke,” she said.

“We told you that he was going to murder us, so did you not believe us? Or did you just not give a shit?

“I can have empathy for human beings making mistakes, but that is a lot of human beings making a lot of mistakes; a lot of human beings missing a lot of red flags, red flags that seem so obvious to me that it baffles me that actual police officers, whose job it is to protect people, did not take this risk seriously.”

Ariel said after receiving “countless messages” from women who had stories of police not taking their concerns seriously, she was not surprised that no action was taken about her father.

“This was the perfect storm of apathy and compassion fatigue from officers, combined with shoddy systems, outdated policies and insufficient training and support that resulted in a lethal outcome,” she said.

“Jenny and Gretel Petelczyc should not have been murdered. They deserved so much better.”