The man who killed Molly Ticehurst has pleaded guilty to her domestic violence homicide and other offences, meaning her family is one step closer to the end of the court process – but a world away from any kind of peace.
Not long before he killed her, Molly reported to police he had raped her, smashed her car window and killed her puppy. She even showed them texts he sent threatening to kill her. They charged him. But he was released on bail by a court registrar because it was Saturday and a magistrate was not available.
Molly was murdered in her home at Forbes about two weeks later, about April 22, 2024. She was only 28. Had he not been bailed, Molly would be watching her little boy grow as I right these words.
Molly was promised help with intruder-proofing her home as part of the NSW Staying Home Leaving Violence scheme two weeks before her death. That help never came. “She was all happy that they were going to help her and then nothing. False hope they gave her,” her dad Tony told a media outlet.
In the wake of Molly’s death and widespread community anger over the failures that allowed him to kill Molly, the NSW Government made some changes designed to stop the same mistakes costing another woman her life. Only time will tell if these will work.
Molly was the 30th of 105 Australian women killed last year – the highest documented femicide toll our country has seen. As of today, we’ve lost 61 women to violence this year.
We need more than reactive piecemeal changes in legislation to save women’s lives. There are so many holes in the safety nets, that it is simply impossible to list them here. We will simply continue losing the Molly’s, the Zoe’s, the Isla’s, the Samantha’s, the Annette’s, the unnamed women, the Lisa’s, the Julia’s, the Nikkita’s, the Irene’s …. all the women!
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