It has been more than two years since the Chilcott family experienced a traumatic event - a horrific murder-suicide involving their neighbours took place in their Wangaratta home.
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The Chilcotts have since sold their Belle Avenue home and tried to move on, but the difficult process of dealing with the government's Victims of Crime organisation and a lack of information about the coming coronial inquest have made that hard.
Northern Victoria MP Tania Maxwell yesterday questioned why the Victorian government has kept them waiting.
"Two people died in their house and four children became orphaned in early 2017 while they were trying to help stop a horrific act of neighbourhood family violence," she said in Parliament.
"The Chilcotts have been unable to return to their hither-to, much-loved home, lost substantial value on their property sale and have only been granted a (Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal) award of $3250 each for the trauma they have suffered.
"They face ongoing trauma as they continue to wait for years for any information for the coronial inquest.
"I ask what is the government going to do to improve the poor communication and reduce the lengthy delays that increasing numbers of crime victims in Northern Victoria are enduring?"
Luke and Tarn Chilcott had the support of good lawyers based in the North East, but with the hearings in their VOCAT case all in Melbourne, the process became too frustrating to continue fighting.
The next step for them will be giving evidence during a coronial inquest.
Mr Chilcott said he would have preferred if the process was over two years ago.
"You re-live incidents like this everyday of your life anyway, there's not many moments where you don't have it in the back of your mind or the smallest thing reminds you of it," he said.
"There's really no indication where the coronial investigation is at.
"We've been advised that we will most likely need to put some time aside to be a part of that, but to what extent and how much of an impact it's going to have on us we don't know because we can't get any guidance on it."
Mr Chilcott said the justice system is good when it works, but he wanted to ensure the next person in his position did not have to go through the pain of waiting as long as his family.
"If we can be a part of that change, then we're all for it," he said.
"While our situation was pretty full on, there are people who have been through a hell of a lot worse, that have been waiting a hell of a lot longer.
"It blows my mind to think of what they have been through and what they're waiting for."
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