She had to cover up,” Suzanne said.“In the beginning we thought he was a prude, but in hindsight we know there was more to it than that. He was controlling. 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. The mum-of-three had burns to 97 per cent of her body but that didn’t stop her telling police three times what her “monster” estranged husband had done.Hannah Clarke's parents bravely speak about her detailed testimony against Rowan Baxter.Hannah Clarke and her three children were killed by her estranged husband.The final heroic feat of a Queensland mum-of-three has been revealed, which took place even after she had been badly burned by her ex-partner.With burns to 97 per cent of her body, Hannah Clarke managed to give Queensland police three The epic move is even more heroic considering she didn’t know if her estranged husband Rowan Baxter was alive himself after dousing Ms Clarke and their three children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey in petrol and setting them on fire. The final heroic feat of a Queensland mum-of-three has been revealed, which took place even after she had been badly burned by her ex-partner. She, at that time, didn’t know he had passed.”He set them all on fire before telling people in the street not to help and then stabbed himself to death.Rowan Baxter and Hannah Clarke with their children Laianah, Aaliyah and Trey.Ms Clark was still conscious and alert when emergency crews arrived on the scene when she gave what Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll described as the most powerful evidence they could possibly have.“I think that officers and the emergency services for the rest of their lives will be thinking of that moment and what she actually did,” she told the “My investigators have to watch that, obviously as part of the evidence to go forward.“It’s probably just the most harrowing thing you could ever watch.“Not only in real life, but to then have to go back and review the videos well.”Ms Clarke succumbed to her injuries that night in hospital.In early January, Baxter was given a DVO by a Brisbane court for kidnapping one of their children and taking her interstate against Ms Clarke’s wishes.The family claimed he stalked Hannah through her mobile and knew where she was at all times. Clarke was able to make it out of the car and allegedly told witnesses that Baxter had poured petrol on her.Clarke and her children were buried on 9 March 2020.
An emotional Scott Morrison has said he and his wife Jenny struggled to comprehend the brutal death of Hannah Clarke - as he read her final Instagram post to … But she did know police would need details.“On the scene, she walked herself to the stretcher, put herself down and gave this description of what the monster had done and then apparently passed out going to the hospital and when she came to in ICU gave it all again,” Ms Clarke’s dad Lloyd Clarke told the “And it was just so strong, and obviously she wanted this monster to get caught. The murders sparked a national debate about domestic violence in Australia, after reports emerged that Baxter had a history of violence, misogyny, and had been subjected to a domestic violence order(DVO) a…
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?’”
Hannah Clarke (8 September 1988 – 19 February 2020), sometimes referred to as Hannah Baxter, was an Australian woman who was fatally burned in a petrol fire in her car in a murder–suicide by her estranged husband, Rowan Baxter, along with their three children, on 19 February 2020 in Camp Hill, Queensland.