{"id":31246,"date":"2026-06-15T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/31246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:05:09","slug":"police-treating-deaths-of-man-and-girl-found-dead-in-bay-at-concord-as-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/31246\/","title":{"rendered":"Police treating deaths of man and girl found dead in bay at Concord as murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigators are trying to determine what led to a suspected murder-suicide on Saturday, after the bodies of a father and young child were recovered from a bay in Sydney’s inner west.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 11:45am, officers were called to Bayview Park in Concord following reports that a man was found dead in the Parramatta River.<\/p>\n

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The man, aged in his 40s, had been in a small boat with his six-year-old daughter that morning and their boat was later found unattended and floating in a bay.<\/p>\n

A separate call had also been made to police that day by a friend of the man who said he had “concerns for the child’s welfare and the man’s welfare”.<\/p>\n

Both bodies were recovered by Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Christine McDonald from the Burwood Police Area Command on Saturday described the situation as “an absolute tragedy for the family and for the community on every level”.<\/p>\n

She confirmed over the weekend that domestic violence was “a definite line of inquiry” in the case.<\/p>\n

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The major operation to recover the bodies involved marine area command, police divers and police aviation command. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Superintendent McDonald said the mother of the child was being assisted by police.<\/p>\n

“It would rock any mother to the core,” Superintendent McDonald said.<\/p>\n

Police said the man had hired the boat from a local vessel hire company.<\/p>\n

Concord resident Graham Aston told the ABC the incident “certainly hurts everyone” in the community.<\/p>\n

“Such a young life and had a world ahead of her \u2014 it’s just a tragedy,” he said of the six-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

The homicide squad is now involved in the investigation, with a report to be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators are trying to determine what led to a suspected murder-suicide on Saturday, after the bodies of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,28861,28852,28864,28863,28862,28856,28857,596,28859,28858,28855,28860,28853,28854],"class_list":["post-31246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-burwood-police-area-command","tag-concord-bayview-park","tag-concord-boat-death","tag-concord-drowning","tag-concord-resident-graham-aston","tag-domestic-violence-murder-suicide","tag-man-and-child-dead","tag-nsw","tag-parramatta-river","tag-six-year-old-girl-dead","tag-suicidal","tag-superintendent-christine-mcdonald","tag-suspected-murder-suicide-concord","tag-suspected-murder-suicide-parramatta-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}