Denpasar City police have interviewed the children’s mother, who was in Jakarta with family when the attack unfolded.<\/p>\n
She had called a neighbour to perform a welfare check on her family, after she said a call to her husband disengaged and she heard one of her children crying.<\/p>\n
‘Acts of violence’<\/p>\n
Denpasar City police said an autopsy would not be carried out on the children at the request of their mother.<\/p>\n
“Initial external findings suggest the two children died as a result of acts of violence,” the police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Police say the children died at their home at the hands of their father. (Supplied: Indonesian police)<\/p>\n
Police said Mr Shaw died by suicide.<\/p>\n
“From the CCTV there is no indication of another perpetrator,” Chief Commissioner Leonard Simatupang said.<\/p>\n
He said CCTV had recorded the children screaming.<\/p>\n
Divorce proceedings<\/p>\n
Mr Shaw’s wife told police she had filed for a divorce in 2022.<\/p>\n
“The reason was that the husband is temperamental, but later she revoked the case as the husband was showing improvements,” Chief Commissioner Simatupang said.<\/p>\n
“There is no medical psychiatric record about the man; it had only come from the wife’s statement that the husband is temperamental and having high anxiety.”<\/p>\n
‘Gaunt’ appearance<\/p>\n
Bunbury resident Tania Dagnall said she and her husband had been friends with Mr Shaw for the past 11 years.<\/p>\n
She said they had caught up with the man they called “Damo” just three months ago in Bali and immediately noticed his “gaunt” appearance.<\/p>\n
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Damien Shaw, 56, used to work in the oil and gas industry. (LinkedIn)<\/p>\n
“I was shocked looking at him; he didn’t look like him when he walked up and joined us for coffee \u2026 he was not the buff dude I was used to seeing,” she told the ABC.<\/p>\n
“If he has done this, there’s no excuse for it, never any excuse for that, ever.<\/p>\n
Ms Dagnall said she was sad that Mr Shaw had not reached out to them.<\/p>\n
“We could have been on a plane,” she said.<\/p>\n
Long-term Bali resident<\/p>\n
The ABC understands Mr Shaw was originally from Perth but had lived in Bali for decades and had converted to Islam when he married his wife about six or seven years ago.<\/p>\n
To comply with his adopted faith, friends say he stopped drinking alcohol and did not touch drugs.<\/p>\n