An investigation has been launched into why it took police nearly an hour to acknowledge a triple-zero call to a house where a woman lay dying. The woman’s partner has since been charged with murder.
A call was made to triple zero shortly after 1.30am on Saturday after neighbours reportedly heard screaming from a residential home in Casino in the Northern Rivers.
Police failed to acknowledge the emergency call until 2.25am. When they arrived at the home two minutes later, they found the woman, aged in her 40s, unconscious but still breathing.
An ambulance was called, but the woman’s condition deteriorated and she died at the scene.
Police said the woman’s male partner, 31, had been charged with murder.
It’s the second domestic violence-related death in the state in two days after a woman was allegedly murdered by her housemate at Russell Lea in Sydney’s inner west on Thursday.
Source: 12ft