AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2006
Vic:Mother of drowned boys does't believe murdered
GEELONG, Aug 14 AAP - The mother of three boys who drowned in a Victorian dam on Fathers
Day last year has told a court she does not believe their father murdered them.
Cindy Gambino is giving evidence in a committal hearing for her estranged husband Robert
Farquharson, 36, of Winchelsea in south-west Victoria.
He has been charged with murdering their sons Jai, 10, Tyler, seven, and Bailey, two,
by driving them into a dam near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.
Ms Gambino told Geelong Magistrates' Court today it was her idea the boys spend Fathers
Day with their dad.
She described Farquharson in her statement to police as a "soft" father who could not
say no to the boys.
"I believe with all my heart that this was just an accident and he would never have
hurt a hair on their heads," she told police.
Asked in court today by Farquharson's lawyer Russell Sarah if she stood by that statement,
Ms Gambino replied: "I don't believe this was murder".
The committal hearing before magistrate Jon Klestadt continues.
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KEYWORD: FARQUHARSON MOTHER
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