Ex Aussie Pro Rugby Player Torches His Entire Family

[Lordbenny]

News stories don’t get anymore fked up than this....about as depressing as it gets!

Rowan Baxter: Ex-rugby player, wife and children die after 'horrific' car fire https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-4877815...

[marksx]

Horrible

[cossy400]

How the hell did he pour petrol on her?

Jesus thats some way to destroy your family.

[marksx]

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https://www.ruck.co.uk/ex-rugby-players-rampage-le...

[poo at Paul's]

What a . Them poor kids.

[Pebbles167]

That's awful.

Complete speculation, but I wonder if he was suffering with Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a sort of dementia caused by repeated head knocks & concussions. It's been suspected in several family murder suicides, including the wrestler Chris Benoit.

[Jasandjules]

There is not much worse than three kids under 10 being killed by their dad.

[Sophisticated Sarah]

Pebbles167 said:

That's awful.

Complete speculation, but I wonder if he was suffering with Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a sort of dementia caused by repeated head knocks & concussions. It's been suspected in several family murder suicides, including the wrestler Chris Benoit.

It seems only recently that the results of concussion and head trauma in sport is being taken seriously. Friend of mine retired from rugby at the age of 28 following a concussion, now suffers daily migraine like pain and personality changes.

Awful incident regardless

[Otispunkmeyer]

Sophisticated Sarah said:

Pebbles167 said:

That's awful.

Complete speculation, but I wonder if he was suffering with Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a sort of dementia caused by repeated head knocks & concussions. It's been suspected in several family murder suicides, including the wrestler Chris Benoit.

It seems only recently that the results of concussion and head trauma in sport is being taken seriously. Friend of mine retired from rugby at the age of 28 following a concussion, now suffers daily migraine like pain and personality changes.

Awful incident regardless

https://youtu.be/esPRsT-lmw8 (TEDx talk)


https://youtu.be/FTtKpBGjxd8 ( longer presentation)

very interesting about what has been learned from brain scans. NFL players are a key one... repeated and heavy head impacts.

[4154QLD]

This is just a few mins from where I live in Brissie and as you can imagine is all over the news here.

The couple used to run a "crossfit" style gym in the next suburb from me which recently closed down.. there's a whole lot more to this I think as the guy had multiple stab wounds.

Terrible situation none-the-less. Truly awful.

[OzzyR1]

4154QLD said:

there's a whole lot more to this I think as the guy had multiple stab wounds.

Self-inflicted from reports.

Fing hell, those poor kids.

[EarlofDrift]

You would need to be seriously mentally deranged or just an evil piece of st to do something like that.

I'm sure plenty of people will emerge from the woodwork over the next few days to say he had issues or had sought help and was let down or something along those lines.