The home where the bodies of a mother and her disabled teenage daughter were discovered was raided by counter terror police a week before they died.
Jennifer Carrig, 53, and her daughter Ella, 13, were found deceased in two separate bedrooms of their home on Menzies Rd in Marsfield in Sydney’s north-west last Thursday.
Just eight days before the tragic discovery of their bodies in separate bedrooms, NSW Police officers attached to Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics Command executed a search warrant at the same home in an early morning raid on July 2.
Police arrested Ms Carrig’s 19-year-old son Christopher, who had been under investigation since he allegedly graffitied Nazi symbols on the walls of Macquarie University in May, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The teen is also accused of intimidating a man on nearby Herring Rd shortly after the alleged vandalism in an incident which was allegedly posted online.
Police charged Christopher with six offences related to the alleged vandalism and allegedly seized items related to ‘extreme right-wing ideology’ during the raid.
He was bailed to appear in Burwood Local Court on August 13 facing a string of charges, including destroy or damage property, face blackened or disguised with intention to commit indictable offence, possess graffiti implement, enter prescribed premises without lawful excuse, stalk or intimidate and enter enclosed land without lawful excuse.
A 20-year-old woman who was also arrested will face court next week.
Jennifer Carrig (pictured left) and her daughter Ella (pictured right) were found dead inside their home last Thursday
The home where the bodies were found (pictured) was raided by police a week prior in relation to alleged extremist vandalism
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Christopher Carrig had any involvement in the deaths of his mother Jennifer or sister Ella.
NSW Police have launched a major investigation into the deaths of Ms Carrig and Ella, which is ongoing.
Police initially revealed that the pair’s deaths were not being treated as suspicious.
Sources have since revealed that detectives are also investigating whether the deaths may have been the result of a murder-suicide.
It remains unclear how the pair died as neither Mr Carrig or her daughter had obvious injuries.
‘There was no bullet or stab wounds to the victims,’ a police spokesperson said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted NSW Police for comment.
The tragedy has sparked an outpouring of tributes to the pair, who had lived at the home for several years.
New South Wales Police initially said the mother and daughter’s deaths were not being treated as suspicious but are now reportedly investigating a murder-suicide theory
Mother of-three Jennifer Carrig (pictured) was described by her friend as the ‘best mumma’
Ms Carrig has been remembered as the ‘best mumma’ to her family, including to her daughter Ella, who was disabled and needed full-time care.
‘She was the best so caring and thoughtful,’ Ms Carrig’s best friend Samantha Thomas-Barber told the Daily Telegraph.
‘A true treasure and warrior … she was the best mumma to her family.’
Neighbours in the quiet suburban street were ‘absolutely shocked’.
Many said they didn’t hear or see anything out of the ordinary on Thursday morning until they saw the emergency vehicles in their street.
One described the mother-of-three as ‘very friendly and kind’.
He told Daily Mail Australia that Ella had a disability and that her mother had just recently completed renovations on the home.
Another neighbour said Jennifer used to babysit him and he knew her his whole life.
‘It’s sad,’ he said.
A family friend added: ‘I can’t believe this has happened,’
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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