Domestic violence allegations against John Edwards misrecorded by police officer, inquest told

Senior constable Brooke Cooper says she hadn't read the NSW police handbook on family violence when Olga Edwards came to report the assaults

Olga Edwards' allegations of domestic violence against the man who eventually murdered her children were misrecorded by a senior constable who had never opened the police handbook on family violence.

In fact, senior constable Brooke Cooper hadn't read the New South Wales police force's domestic and family violence standard operating procedures until it was placed before her in the NSW coroners court on Wednesday.