James Harrison: NSW Well being govt describes East Lismore father at centre of murder-suicide as ‘great colleague and beloved good friend’

A NSW well being govt has described a father who killed himself and his two-year-old son at his residence throughout a deliberate custody go to a a ‘great colleague’ and ‘beloved good friend’. 

James Harrison, 38, a NSW well being enterprise analyst and his toddler son Rowan had been discovered useless inside a unit on School Road in East Lismore on the NSW far north coast on Sunday evening after police had been known as to carry out a welfare test.

Staff at NSW Well being Scientific Excellence Fee acquired an e mail on Wednesday, three days after Harrison’s alleged murder-suicide. 

CEC Director of Info Administration Andre Jenkins despatched an e mail to all employees on Wednesday morning through which he described Harrison as a ‘great colleague’ and ‘beloved good friend’ regardless of NSW police treating his and his son’s deaths as a murder-suicide

The e-mail, which was despatched by CEC Director of Info Administration Andre Jenkins following a morning employees assembly, outlined ‘help companies’ obtainable within the wake of Harrison’s dying. 

‘It’s with indescribable unhappiness that I discover myself letting you already know that James Harrison and his son Rowan died on Sunday,’ Mr Jenkins wrote within the e mail obtained by The Telegraph. 

‘There are not any phrases to adequately describe the lack of an exquisite colleague and beloved good friend.

‘Lots of you additionally shared and [had] reminiscences of Rowan popping up in conferences along with his proud dad.’ 

Workers slammed Mr Jenkins’ e mail as ‘tone-deaf’ because it didn’t acknowledge that Harrison and his son’s dying was being handled as a murder-suicide by NSW police. 

Lismore physician Dr Sophie Roome together with her son Rowan, who was tragically killed in a suspected murder-suicide on Sunday evening

Well being Minister Ryan Park labelled the e-mail as ‘utterly unacceptable’ and claimed it brought on employees ‘vital misery’.

Mr Park added the e-mail didn’t mirror the views of NSW Well being and was not endorsed or authorised by the division. 

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