SA inquest told of police errors

A MAN whose mother was murdered by his father in front of 300 people has told an Adelaide inquest of repeatedly complaining to police about his dad's behaviour before her death.

Arman Abrahimzadeh said police were told of his father assaulting his sister and mother, and of his issuing death threats and warnings that he would do something which would "make history".

He said one police officer, who was told of an interim domestic violence restraining order against his father, chuckled when told of a "second wife" and appeared to be "making light of the threat".

Mr Abrahimzadeh was giving evidence at the inquest into the death of Zahra Abrahimzadeh, 44, who was repeatedly stabbed by her estranged husband at a Persian function at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Zialloh Abrahimzadeh is serving a minimum 26-year jail term for the March 2010 murder.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Naomi Kereru, said the murder was precipitated by a "cascade" of police inaction and omissions.

Police never charged Abrahimzadeh with assault or even spoke to him about the complaints about him during the 13 months after the first complaint up until the time of the murder.

The family encountered failures and omissions "at almost every point of contact with the police", Ms Kereru said.

A domestic violence worker also reported that Ms Abrahimzadeh was "petrified of being killed" after her brother-in-law was seen in a car across the road from the safe house where she and her children were living.

Mr Abrahimzadeh told the inquest that he, his two sisters and their mother all suffered domestic violence at the hands of his father, who also used a belt, a whip or any other object close by.

His mother, who was once thrown through a window by his father, would be crying curled up in a corner or would hide after such events.

The family finally fled the house in February 2009 when his father attacked his mother and older sister and tried to arm himself with knives from the kitchen.

"He said he will burn the house down with all of us inside it," Mr Abrahimzadeh said.

Two months later his father was served with the interim restraining order, but he regularly made threats saying he "would take his revenge" and "we should not blame him if he loses his patience".

Mr Abrahimzadeh said he told police of these threats which he believed breached the order.

The inquest is continuing.

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