The grandparents of two children slain by their mother’s partner have failed in their bid to gain more information about their grandchildren from their school.
Amber Rose Rigney, 6, and her brother Korey Lee Mitchell, 5, were tragically strangled to death alongside their mother Adeline Yvette Wilson-Rigney on May 20, 2016.
The 28-year-old woman’s partner, Steven Graham Peet, pleaded guilty to the triple murder that occurred at their Hillier home, north of Adelaide.
He is serving a mandatory life sentence with a 36-year non-parole period.
An ongoing coroner's inquest into the circumstances surrounding Amber and Korey’s deaths and the involvement of the Department of Child Protection, formerly known as Families SA, briefly continued on Friday.
Josephine Atkins, representing the children’s grandparents Steven Egberts and Janet Wells, asked deputy coroner Anthony Schapel if an Education Department confidentiality order could be excluded so the grandparents’ counsel could interview teachers and the principal at Amber and Korey’s school.
But Anna Wells, for the department, questioned the utility of the potential evidence from the school and argued the council assisting Ahura Kalali delivered a complete brief of the investigations and said “there was nothing further that was outstanding”.
The deputy coroner ruled the investigation wouldn’t go any further for confidentiality reasons.
He is due to deliver his findings.
