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<\/p>\nIndonesian police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide after the bodies of an Australian man and his two children were found in a home in Bali.<\/p>\n
Police found the bodies of 56-year-old Damien John Shaw, along with his six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter, inside their bungalow at Kuta on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Badung Regency police said neighbours checked in on the family after a call from the man’s wife, who had recently arrived in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
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Damien John Shaw, 56, and his children were found dead in the family’s bungalow in Bali. (LinkedIn)<\/p>\n
Police said the man’s wife called a neighbour after hearing her child cry while she was on the phone to Mr Shaw.<\/p>\n
She told the neighbour the call was disconnected and her husband became unreachable.<\/p>\n
The neighbour contacted others and then, along with the community head, forced the door to the Kuta bungalow open, discovering the bodies of the children and Mr Shaw.<\/p>\n
Badung police said the family had leased the bungalow in Kuta since 2022.<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0131 114Beyond Blue<\/a> on 1300 224 63613 YARN<\/a> on 13 92 76Suicide Call Back Service<\/a> on 1300 659 467MensLine Australia<\/a> on 1300 789 978<\/p>\n The three bodies were taken to a hospital in Denpasar, where police may conduct autopsies to confirm the cause of death.<\/p>\n A police report was lodged on Sunday, and investigations will continue. Badung police said Mr Shaw was born in Fremantle, in Western Australia.<\/p>\n WA premier describes ‘confronting’ and ‘very sad’ case<\/p>\n Western Australian Premier Roger Cook described the news as a “horrific situation”.<\/p>\n “We know there is a very confronting situation there,” he said.<\/p>\n “This is a very sad situation; our hearts go out to everyone involved. We hope we can get to the bottom of what’s gone on as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n The 56-year-old man was found dead alongside his two children in Kuta, Bali.<\/p>\n \u00a0 (Supplied: Indonesian police)<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said it was providing consular assistance to the family of the three Australians who died in Bali.<\/p>\n “We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time,” they said.<\/p>\n The DFAT spokesperson said due to privacy obligations they were “unable to provide further comment”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesian police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide after the bodies of an Australian man and his two children…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[460985,460984,460982,460983,43,72905,44,41,39,42,40,379345],"class_list":["post-891257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australian-death-in-bali","tag-bali-death","tag-bali-police","tag-damien-john-shaw","tag-headlines","tag-murder-suicide","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891257","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=891257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6910125bf54eb18fdc5ce35b1dab1aa8.jpeg\")
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