@bluecat*dancing wrote:
Commissioner Bernie Geary will review the services provided to Luke and Ms Batty's family and how they may have impacted on the family.
"Our sympathies go out to this unbelievably brave woman and to hear her speak is just actually inspiring," he told ABC local radio.
"It's a sad story of the anguish and incomprehensible actions that happen sometimes that travel with mental illness.
"The intention of the review is to look at how we can enhance services, look at what works best and in this case what maybe hasn't worked."
Mr Geary says there are often no magic answers in such tragic cases.
"There is so much about a case like this that is incomprehensible and certainly not predictable," he said.
He is worried that people with mental illness will be stigmatised with being violent.
"I find a coward present more often in a family violence issue than I do a person with a mental illness," he said.
"I don't want people with mental illness to be tarred with the brush of violence always.
"There are so many people in the community who suffer bravely with mental illness issues [who] are certainly not violent."
This morning, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay confirmed Anderson did have outstanding warrants for domestic violence matters.
He shouldn't be speaking about violence and mental illness in the same speech then.
Some people without mental illness are violent, some people with mental illness are violent.
My FIL has never been violent in his life and he now has dementia, yesterday he was certain he had a snake in a cage and wanted me to find out what snakes eat, so he could feed it. For a man who has never had an angry word for anyone, he can become really angry in the blink of an eye and return to normal in the same amount of time.
We have no idea what goes on in the minds of people with mental illness, not even people with mental illness know what others are thinking.
