Hannah Clarke's father says his daughter's estranged husband, Rowan Baxter, was a monster who only cared about himself.
Mr Baxter killed his estranged wife Hannah Clarke and their three children — Laianah, Aaliyah and Trey — on Wednesday morning, by dousing them in petrol and setting them alight.
"He might have said he cared and loved his children, but I know it was always about him coming first," Ms Clarke's father Lloyd Clarke wrote on Facebook.
"He only cared about himself."
Mr Clarke thanked friends on Facebook for their messages, with the heartbroken grandfather writing: "Thank you for the beautiful words, [I hope] the scum rots in hell".
Hannah's mother Suzanne Clarke also took to social media to express her sadness, posting a photo of Ms Baxter and the children with angel wings.
She responded to a comment on the photo writing "just can't believe it".
'Murder-suicide threat'
Hannah's brother and his wife have started a fundraiser for the family, to cover funeral costs and assist their parents who "have given every little thing they own to help my sister try and get away".
In a post on Facebook Nat Clarke wrote: "I had my sister, nephew and two nieces taken from me in the worst way possible by a heartless monster".
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A close friend of Hannah Clarke's and a regular at the gym she owned with her estranged husband, wrote a public letter to the late mother of three, recalling their conversations in which Hannah Clarke spoke of her abuse.
"You confided in me about the family violence you had experienced for the past 10 years," wrote Ms Manja Whaley, who also happened to be a domestic violence support worker at the time.
She recalls Hannah telling her: "I knew when I met you, I met you for a reason".
Ms Whaley wrote: "I asked you if he had ever threatened to kill you or the children and you told me 'he had not'.
"But there was one thing he had said, really matter of fact, when you first got together 10 years ago.
"That was that he had told his ex-partner with whom he had a child, that if she was to leave him he would take the child and end his own life and that of the child."
Ms Whaley said Hannah was "warm, caring and someone that anyone would feel instantly comfortable with to show their vulnerable side."
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