Monster dad slaughtered his wife, three kids and their grandmother before spending SIX DAYS with their dead bodies
A MONSTER dad who killed his three children, wife and stepmother has been jailed for life with no chance of parole.
Anthony Robert Harvey, 25, shockingly spent six days with the bodies of his dead family at their home in Perth, Australia, after he had butchered them with knives and a blunt instrument last year.
He killed his two-year-old twins, Alice and Beatrix, three-year-old Charlotte and their mother Mara Lee Harvey, 41, at their Bedford home on September 3, 2018.
Mara’s mother Berverly Ann Quinn, 73, was then murdered when she turned up at the house the following morning.
Harvey then drove 870 miles north to Pannawonica, where he has family, and handed himself into police on September 9.
He was sentenced to life behind bars with an order never to be released today, after earlier pleading guilty to the murders.
He is the only person in Western Australia to be given the strict sentence.
Your actions were so far beyond the bounds … they would instil horror and revulsion in the most hardened of people
Justice Stephen Hall
Justice Stephen Hall said there were no other case that were “truly comparable”.
“Your actions were so far beyond the bounds … they would instil horror and revulsion in the most hardened of people.”
He added that the sentence was justified, as the women were unsuspecting and the children were asleep while they were attacked.
Justice Hall said: “This is the place they should have been safest.
“They should have been able to trust their father to protect them.
“That’s the most fundamental duty any parent has.”
Parts of the attack were suppressed by the court due to their horrifying nature.
The court heard Ms Quinn and Mara were struck on the head with a pipe and repeatedly stabbed with a large knife he had recently purchased.
DAUGHTER STABBED 38 TIMES
Harvey claims to have tried to “quickly” finish his wife of three years and stabbed her at least 12 times.
A smaller knife was used to kill the children, with Charlotte being stabbed 38 times.
Months after the murders, shocked family members revealed signs the family had been spiralling downwards.
One of Mara’s close friends told Daily Mail Australia: “Anthony was lazy and drunk and high and wanted to spend all his time having fun and partying instead of being a dad.
“He thought [his wife and children] were cramping his style.
“He’d say he wanted to be free of her and the girls, that they were holding him back from happiness and no one cared about him.”
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The dad-of-three owned a franchise of lawn-mowing service Jim’s Mowing.
He met Mara while working in hospitality at the Sino Steel mine site on Cape Preston in northwest Western Australia.
Mr Harvey proposed a few months before Charlotte was born in February 2015 and at first was a proud dad.
But when their relationship began to show cracks, they got pregnant again, with Mara thinking a big family would bring them together.
Harvey reacted negatively to the birth of his twin daughters in 2016, shocked that two had arrived at once.
Their once solid finances were suffering, not helped by Harvey’s heavy drink and drug habit, according to Mara’s friends.
They claim he spent $300 (£170) a week on marijuana and meth.
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They said: “He was spending so much on drugs Mara’s mum had to buy them food.
“Mara’s mum was stressed as she spent her money on making sure the kids were fed and clothed.”
He also became controlling and emotionally abusive towards the end of their relationship, scrolling through his wife’s phone and insisting on coming with her whenever she went out.
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