John Edwards made threats to kill an ex-partner who 'took the children', Sydney inquest hears

Olga Edwards told lawyer her husband slept with a machete under his bed and had been violent towards their children, Jack and Jennifer

Olga Edwards heard her abusive husband make yearly threats to kill an ex-partner who took the children away" from him, a NSW inquest has heard.

Fears during her own divorce from John Edwards, who later murdered their teenage children, were so prominent they formed part of almost every discussion about parenting orders with her barrister, Peter Fowler, the NSW coroners court was told on Thursday.