Shortcut: My father murdered my baby and he’s not in jail

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

In October 2019, Natalie Sands, her children and her mother suffered an unthinkably brutal attack at the hands of her father.

Natalie was doused in petrol and set alight by her father. Despite being able to escape her burning house with burns to 75 percent of her body, she watched helplessly as her five year old son, Orlando, and mother Antoinette, perished.

After leaving the scene, her father drove to the local Tamworth police station and handed himself in.

It was decided in 2021 that Natalie's father wouldn’t face trial over the crime due to the Judge accepting that he was likely suffering a neurodegenerative disease resulting is psychotic symptoms.

Natalie has been campaigning online to get a lawyer to reopen the case and hold her father “properly accountable”.

You can keep up to date with Natalie's campaign on TikTok. Her account is @natz_armyofficial

We reached out to the NSW ODPP for comment regarding this case. You can read their response on our social media pages.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Natalie Sands

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

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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.
0:26.0	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	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
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	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.
0:59.4	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	I know we include a trigger warning before every episode of Australian True Crime,
1:17.0	but I want you to be aware that this episode is particularly difficult listening.
1:22.0	Natalie Sans and her mother and her children suffered an unthinkable brutal attack at the hands of her father.
1:30.0	It was unthinkable even for Natalie, who, having grown up with this man, thought she knew how brutal he could be.
1:39.0	She thought she knew his limits and how to stay just outside of them. But one night in 2019 he
1:47.3	shocked her. Now you and I have heard some terrible stories together but this this one is very, very hard. So please check in with
1:56.7	yourself as you go along and if you need to, turn it off. Natalie does want the world to know what happened to her and her boys and her mom
2:06.9	She wants us to know especially what happened after the attack
2:11.1	But I know she's not going to want to hurt more people in the process,
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