Commentary
It was 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his two young girls.
From then on, he wrote regularly updating me on his eight-year Family Court marathon, where he lost round after round, despite his wife being declared an unfit mother after a court-ordered psychiatric assessment. She very effectively used false violence accusations to get away with moving with the children interstate and endlessly dragging out the legal proceedings.
Then in December, he killed himself. Since I heard the tragic news, I’ve been trawling through his old emails; so sad that this good man had lost all hope….