History of violence: how a murder-suicide ended a bloody chapter in a small Victorian town

Kevin Knowles was shot and killed on a country road near Kirkstall on 22 July, but no one who knew him was surprised he had met such an end Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast Death was never far behind Kevin Knowles. It was there when he and his partner, Amanda Bourke, spent the day drinking with Stephen Johnston in 2016. Johnston was savagely beaten at his home in Victoria's south-west and left with 101 separate injuries; he died in hospital. Knowles was the ma...