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Australian True Crime

Lynn's Law: The Murder of Lynn Cannon and the Call for Reform

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Lynn Cannon, an adored Perth mother of two, was brutally murdered by her ex husband Paul Cannon in late 2022.


The day before she was murdered, Paul learned she was in a new relationship.


Under false pretences, he convinced her to come to his house the next day. An argument escalated, prompting neighbours to call the police.


Despite multiple calls to 000, police took an hour and 15 minutes to arrive.


Lynn was an adored mother, daughter, sister and friend. Her loved ones are now taking action to ensure police response times for domestic violence calls never take that long again, with their proposed law: Lynn's Law.


WA Police's statement regarding this episode can be viewed here: https://publuu.com/flip-book/268249/629734


For Support: 


Lifeline  on 13 11 14


13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)


1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732


CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Jacqui Darley

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard


This episode contains extra content from Chanel 9 News and Channel 7 News


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Transcript

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0:00.0

We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

0:04.3

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

0:07.4

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

0:10.3

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

0:15.2

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

0:19.9

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

0:25.9

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

0:29.2

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

0:33.8

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

0:38.4

true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

0:42.0

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

0:47.0

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:59.6

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

1:07.0

Good evening, the sisters of a Perth mother who was murdered by her ex-husband

1:14.4

are calling for urgent changes to the system ahead of her killer's sentencing.

1:18.6

It took more than an hour for police to respond to Triple Zero calls the night Lynn Cannon was killed. Her family

1:25.2

believes it cost Lynn her life.

1:29.4

I was recently criticized pretty harshly by a listener on Facebook for saying that I feel

1:38.6

there's a lot of talk about family and domestic violence in Australia and yet nothing ever changes.

1:45.0

While we're endlessly told about new initiatives, education and various measures being put into

1:50.3

place by governments and police, women are still being murdered at a rate of roughly

1:54.5

one a week in this country.

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