A mum, whose four-year-old son was killed by her mentally ill husband, said that police officers ignored her frantic calls outside a station the day her son and husband disappeared.
Julia Trinne told the Advertiser that on the morning of July 8, 2014, she banged on the doors of the Norwood Adelaide police station and rang the doorbell for over 30 minutes, but was only brought inside for an interview at 8am, when the station had officially opened.
“I could see people in the station but they would not open the doors because it was not opening time.
“I understand protocols but when it is obvious something major is wrong you would think surely they would be able to realise this and act,” she said.
At the time, she had no idea that her then-husband, David Janzow, 38, who suffers from bipolar disorder, had slipped into a psychosis and stabbed their four-year-old son, Luca to death.
She has since lodged a formal complaint with South Australian Police, saying that there was a lack of professional action. She claimed that officers were more concerned with why she did not know her husband’s registration number on his vehicle. “I had tears streaming down my face, and at one point even crouched down in the corner of the station and was very distressed with, what I believe, was a lack of empathy and lack of professional and appropriate action,” she told The Advertiser.
South Australian Police has yet to comment on the matter.
In an interview with The Project earlier this year, Ms Trinne said her ex-husband would have not harmed their son if he had gotten help. She said that Mr Janzow, who is now locked up in a secure mental health facility, is tortured by his actions and regrets not asking for help before it was too late.
Mr Janzow was charged with murder in July last year, but a Supreme Court judge found him not guilty by reason of mental incompetence as he was suffering from psychotic symptoms along with depression and was unaware that his conduct was wrong.
His psychiatrist Craig Raeside said Mr Janzow feared that Luca was becoming bipolar and was on his way to becoming a ‘psychopath’ — the word he used to describe himself to police and paramedics he confessed to while still covered in his son’s blood.
Ms Trinne said she had felt anger towards Mr Janzow, but knows he was ‘not in his right mind’ and now, she no longer blames him for Luca’s death.
“So it is a very challenging position to be in because the person that I loved the most, as my husband, did the most horrific thing imaginable to one of our boys,” she said.
Sources: Dailymail.co.uk and Au.news.yahoo.com
