A policewoman is in a stable condition after surgery for axe wounds allegedly inflicted by her father, who is charged with murdering her mother and her two young children.
The condition of the 31-year-old senior constable had yesterday improved and was listed as stable after being brought out of an induced coma, a spokeswoman for Sydney’s Nepean Hospital said.
Surgeons at the hospital operated on the woman on Tuesday.
She had suffered a gash to her head when attacked on Monday in Cowra.
She had arrived at her parents’ weatherboard home in Brougham Street (pictured) about 2pm to find the bodies of her 52-year-old mother, her seven-year-old son and her five-year-old daughter.
Her father allegedly turned on her, fracturing her skull before she ran to neighbours for help.
A hospital spokeswoman yesterday said the senior constable underwent surgery on Tuesday, had been in an induced coma and was now listed as stable.
Her father, in a brief court appearance in Deniliquin yesterday, was refused bail and ordered to appear in Wagga Wagga Local Court on Monday.