Details can be revealed about the troubled youth arrested by counter-terrorism police one week before his mother and disabled sister were found dead at home in unexplained circumstances.
Jennifer Carrig, 53, and Ella, 13, were found dead in two separate bedrooms of their home on Menzies Rd in Marsfield in Sydney‘s north-west last Thursday.
It was revealed today that Chris Carrig, 19, was arrested and charged with multiple offences just one week before Jennifer and his disabled younger sister Ella were believed to have died inside the family home.
A family friend told Daily Mail Australia that the ‘absolutely lovely’ Jennifer Carrig had problems with her outspoken son, Chris, who attended Epping High School until 2022.
Back in 2018, the young teen was obsessed with Game of Thrones, but since leaving school he had formed a group of friends with right-wing views.
Chris Carrig, along with 20-year-old Taylor Bayly appear to have been living at the Menzies Road home when the pair were arrested just after 6am on July 2 by Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics Command officers.
Chris Carrig (circled) with his mother Jennifer and younger sister, Ella, was arrested along with his friend, Taylor Bayly, 20 at the home a week before Jennifer and Ella’s bodies were found at the Marsfield house
They were taken to separate police stations to be charged with offences relating to the spray painting of ‘extreme right-wing ideology’ on a statue at Macquarie University back in February.
Mr Carrig was also charged with offences dating from May at a Woolworths in north-west Sydney, while police took out an Apprehended Violence Order against him on behalf of another man.
Chris Carrig was already banned from the Woolworths when he allegedly unlawfully entered the premises on the afternoon May 25, and is alleged to have stalked or intimidated the man.
Police allege Mr Carrig and Taylor Bayly blackened their faces and then entered Macquarie Park – which has around 130 statues, inside Macquarie University – at around 12.17am on February 25.
Court documents allege they used a spray can to mark objects on campus with the Nazi swastika symbol and the tag of the National Socialist Network, an Australian neo-Nazi political organisation.
The couple were charged with intentionally or recklessly destroying or damaging property, blacken or disguise face with intention to commit an indictable offence, possess graffiti implement and unlawful entry on enclosed lands.
The Marsfield home had bottles stacked outside and several security signs about a dog and cameras, although it is believed only cats lived there and there are no visible exterior cameras
An old friend said of Jennifer Carrig, ‘you could not meet a lovelier person’, but remembered her teenage son Chris as ‘troubled’
They were bailed to appear at different courts this month and next month.
Just eight days after their arrests, the tragic discovery of Jennifer and Ella Carrig’s bodies were made.
The house has several signs warning about security cameras, and ‘beware of the dog’, although no actual exterior cameras can be seen on the property and it appeared two cats, rather than a dog lived there.
Buckets full of bottles sit outside the front wall of the house, and clothes are piled up against windows.
One upper floor bedroom window appears to have had a word written in blue paint in graffiti-style script on the inside, with dribbles of paint from the letters clearly visible.
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 Ms 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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