Family members of accused Wagga Wagga murderer charged as accessories
In regional New South Wales, investigators looking into the domestic violence death of 23-year-old Danielle Madgwick have charged three family members of the accused killer as accessories after the fact. Emergency services found Madgwick suffering from fatal stab wounds to her upper body at a Wagga Wagga residence on the morning of 19 September. Her partner, 31-year-old Adam Mark Perrim, was arrested that evening, charged with murder, and remanded in custody until an 18 November court appearance after declining to apply for bail.
Over the following weekend, NSW police raided the same Wagga Wagga property and arrested Perrim’s 18-year-old brother Bailey Perrim, his 56-year-old father George Maxwell Richard Perrim, and his 53-year-old mother Julie Ann Collins. Authorities allege that all three suspects knew Madgwick. During a Saturday committal hearing, the trio was formally refused bail and remanded to reappear in court on 23 December.
Madgwick’s death was one of three separate cases investigated by state authorities as domestic homicides over that single weekend, drawing public condemnation from New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who described the crimes as shocking. The tragedy underscores a pervasive national crisis highlighted by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data, which shows that an intimate partner killed an Australian woman every 11 days on average in 2024–25.
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