{"id":833450,"date":"2026-07-30T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:01:10","slug":"mount-gambier-toy-library-where-helena-wright-volunteered-issues-statement-grieving-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833450\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Gambier toy library where Helena Wright volunteered issues statement grieving loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A South Australian toy library has expressed sadness following the deaths of a mother and her two children, which police are treating as a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

The bodies of Helena Wright and her 23-month-old daughter were retrieved from waters off Cape Northumberland in SA’s south-east on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

The search for her three-month-old son was formally called off by South Australian Police on Wednesday afternoon, after receiving advice the child could not have survived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Wright was a volunteer committee member at the Mount Gambier Toy Library, which issued a statement on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Mt Gambier Toy Library is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of a member of our committee and her children. Our thoughts are with their family, friends and everyone affected by this devastating event,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Our volunteer committee and toy library community are grieving and supporting one another.”<\/p>\n

Police on Wednesday confirmed Ms Wright had attended a local police station on Sunday and officers had attended her home to conduct a welfare check on Monday morning following a call from a friend. Her car was found later that morning at Cape Northumberland.<\/p>\n

The three deaths have shaken the Port MacDonnell community, which has rallied around locals who volunteered to help the police search.<\/a><\/p>\n

The matter is now the subject of a coronial investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Australian toy library has expressed sadness following the deaths of a mother and her two children,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,405321,405320,468,72905,44,224492,372768],"class_list":["post-833450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cape-northumberland","tag-helena-wright","tag-mount-gambier","tag-murder-suicide","tag-news","tag-port-macdonnell","tag-south-australian-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}