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'@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@ +A legal loophole allowed a psychopathic father with a long history of violence and abuse to access and buy guns before shooting his two teenage children dead. <br>John Edwards, 67, killed his daughter Jennifer Edwards, 13, and his son Jack, 15, in West Pennant Hills in Sydney's north-west on July 5, 2018 in a double murder-suicide that shocked Australia. <br>Over the years, Edwards had applied for several gun licences but was rejected because of numerous convictions for malicious damage and assault.<br>He then came across a loophole, the Commissioner's Permit, which allows people who've been rejected for gun licenses access to pistols and rifles.<br>After shooting his children 14 times in the chest and head, Edwards returned to his rented home in nearby Normanhurst and took his own life, leading his estranged wife and the children's mother Olga to tragically do the same five months later. <br> John Edwards (right) killed his daughter Jennifer and his son Jack (left) in 2018.<br><br>His estranged wife and the teens' mum Olga (second from left) took her own life five months later<br> Olga (right) was just 19 when she became John Edwards' (left) sixth wife in 2001 - she would later go on to take her own life after the horrific murder of her two children at the hands of their own dad<br>An inquest ruled last week the deaths of Jennifer and Jack were preventable after their father discovered the loophole to access and buy guns, despite apprehended violence orders being issued against him by three former partners. <br>UK criminologist David Wilson specialises in the the study of so-called 'family annihilators' and believes Edwards set himself on the path to murder long before that fateful night in 2018.<br>'John Edwards was not a nice old bloke who was a bit broken by the break-up of his sixth relationship.<br><br>John Edwards was a killer,' Mr Wilson told 60 Minutes on Sunday.<br>'With family annihilators like this, they reduce their family to simply possessions that they own. They're part of their chattel. <br> 'And that was the overwhelming thing that I felt meant that he annihilates Jack and Jenny to punish Olga, because she was the one that he felt most proprietorial over, that their offspring were simply his chattel.<br><br>He owned them.'<br> Edwards' former partner Stacey (pictured) broke a two decade-long silence to question why he was granted various gun licences, despite his violent and abusive past<br> John Edwards (pictured as a young man) set himself on the path to murder long before he killed his two children Jack and Jennifer, an expert claimed<br>The program also exposed yet more of Edwards' patterns of abuse, subjecting his wife, former partners and children to years of torment.<br>Ten years into his marriage to Olga, she complained to her GP that her husband was controlling, even demanding she wear shorts skirts and kept her hair long.<br>The abuse also turned increasingly physical, particularly to Jack, who was nearly strangled on a family holiday.  <br>One of Edwards' former partners also broke her silence for the first time in more than two decades to question why Edwards was able to access firearms, despite his violent and abusive past.<br>small pistol primers</a> generously visit the web page. '