Robert Donald William Farquharson (born 1969) is an Australian man convicted of murdering his three sons (aged between 2 and 10 years) on 4 Sept 2005, by deliberately driving his car into a farm dam.[2]
Farquharson was convicted in an earlier trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment with no minimum term. However, he maintained his innocence and appealed his sentence. On 17 December 2009, he won the right to a retrial, due in part to the key witness for the prosecution, Greg King, facing potential criminal charges himself at the time of the original trial.[4] He was released on bail on 21 December 2009. But was again convicted on 22 July 2010 of the murder on his three sons.
The deceased Farquharson children, Jai, 10, Bailey, 2, Tyler, 7 Robert Donald William Farquharson
Helen Garner published This House of Grief (2014) as a response to the crime and the ensuing trials, in which Farquharson is heavily depicted.