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The family of a Queensland woman who was killed alongside her three children in a horrific act of domestic violence has spoken out, revealing the mum-of-three feared for her life a week before she died.Hannah’s estranged husband and the father of her children, Rowan Baxter, doused petrol on the family - setting them alight.In a wide-ranging interview Hannah’s parents, Lloyd and Sue Clarke, and her brother Nat opened up about how Hannah tried to escape the “monster” who ended her life.“She said to me only last week “Mum should I do a will? It was Rowan’s way or the highway.”Before Ms Clarke died she was able to tell police what had happened three times.“She had to grovel and then he would forgive her. Baxter also forced her to have sex with him every night.“She wasn’t allowed to wear bikinis, she works in the fitness industry and wasn’t allowed to wear shorts. Clarke met New Zealand-born Baxter, 11 years her senior, in 2009 when she was 19.Baxter was subjected to a DVO after he allegedly kidnapped their elder daughter (eldest child) on On 19 February 2020, Baxter set fire to the interior of the car Clarke was driving to drop their children at school, quickly burning the children restrained by seat belts in the back seat. Hannah Clarke and her children and her three children Laianah, 6, Aaliyah, 4, and Trey, 3. Mum's final act of heroism revealed as family marks six months since tragedy Not my babies,” Sue said.“The hardest thing is it does fill you with rage because you want to blame something and you can’t,” Nat added.“My sister was so badly burnt that the only thing they could do for memorabilia of her was a footprint.“Because the soles of her feet were only part of her body that weren’t burnt.“We are wanting the symbol of her foot somehow to be a symbol for her and her legacy.”The family also want everyone to know just how beautiful Hannah was.“Hannah gave energy to everyone. What happens to my babies if he kills me?,” Sue told ‘A Current Affair’.“Because he’ll go to jail for murder, who gets my children?”Sue revealed Baxter had spoken to his children over the phone and had been crying, the night before he killed them.“She hung up or the children hung up she said to me, ‘Mum I feel so bad for him’,” Sue said, adding that Baxter was good at playing the victim.Lloyd, Sue and Nat revealed Baxter had created a wedge between them and Hannah and controlled her - going so far as to track her phone conversations.“He was a very jealous and spiteful person,” Hannah’s brother Nat said.A domestic violence order had been taken out against him after he took Laianah on Boxing Day and kept her from the rest of her family for four days.But only two or three weeks ago, Baxter breached the order after printing out A4 size images of Hannah in her underwear and plastering them all over her car.After she confronted him, Baxter twisted her arm up behind her back, before Sue went racing out and screamed at him, but he simply drove off.Hannah’s family said she was living life stepping on eggshells and was petrified, adding that Baxter even controlled what she wore.“She was not allowed to wear shorts. His estranged wife was a trampolining champion.In the months leading up to the alleged attack his Facebook page was littered with pictures and videos of the three children and comments like “loves them to the moon and back” and “daddy misses you all”.Six days ago a friend posted: “Chin up brother everything will work out just hang in there my bro a lot of people care about you and the situation your facing.”Queensland police have yet to confirm whether they believe the attack was a murder-suicide.Neighbours reported hearing multiple explosions before seeing the SUV engulfed in flames in Raven Street about 8.30am on Wednesday.Neighbour Murray Campbell said he heard a number of loud bangs.“It was just horrible, multiple explosions, very loud,” he said.A man who tried to help at the scene was also taken to hospital with facial burns.Childhood Domestic Violence Australia CEO Tracy McLeod Howe said it was a tragedy.In a statement on Wednesday afternoon police confirmed Rowan Baxter was declared dead at the scene after responding emergency crews attempted to revive him.“Preliminary investigations indicate the woman was driving the car and the man was in the front passenger seat prior to the incident,” police said in a statement.Neighbour Murray Campbell said he heard a number of loud bangs which sounded “very much like a gas cylinder explosion”.He said he called triple zero, and did not see anyone run from the car, which was engulfed in flames.Earlier, Queensland’s police minister, Mark Ryan, briefed parliament about the incident and confirmed that the victims included children.“[It is] a horrific incident,” Ryan said. The night before he killed them he was on the phone to the children crying and she hung up or the children hung up she said to me ‘Mum I feel so bad for him’.“She was concerned he would kill her,” her mother said.“She said to me ‘What happens to my babies if he kills me?’” The family was not involved in any family court or federal court proceedings.A former rugby league player and fitness coach, Rowan Baxter had been a member of the New Zealand Warriors NRL squad in the mid-2000s but did not play a first-grade game. All rights reserved.

She’s a crossfiter - she had to do competitions in tights,” Sue said.“She wasn’t allowed to walk off the beach in bikinis. She had to cover up.”Hannah had suffered burns to 97 per cent of her body in the attack and died hours after her children.But before she passed away the mum-of-three gave a detailed report to first responders about what had happened.Her family are still trying to come to terms with the massive loss, but hope her legacy can live on.“I don’t think we’ll ever get over it. He died at the scene.Hannah Clarke had managed to get out of the burning car, but died from her injuries in hospital on Wednesday evening.

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