Wayne Godinet, the father who died with his five young sons in the Russell Island house fire at the weekend, has been cleared of any blame over the tragedy.

Despite ominous media reports that surfaced throughout yesterday – talk of police saying the case needed further scrutiny and that suspicions about how the fire started could not be ruled out – we now know that Godinet died a hero trying to save his children.

And why do we know this? Here’s ABC reporter George Roberts (at top) on the ABC’s 7pm television bulletin last night: “….five young lives lost – including four-year-old twins – and their father Wayne Godinet who died trying to save them from the inferno.

“He ended up trapped upstairs with all the children when the second storey suddenly collapsed.”

These hard, cold, facts as stated by George Roberts have greatly eased the minds of the seasoned retired hacks who compile the MGH. This terrible tragedy that has shattered a small close-knit island community to its core and rightly saddened many around the nation will be much worse if it turns out that criminality was involved on anyone’s part.

Five beautiful young lives lost in a tragic accident is sad enough to deal with; that they might have been murdered lifts the tragedy to a shockingly different level, one of pure evil.

While Roberts has clearly exonerated the father, the MGH’s only complaint with his report last night is why he didn’t source the information as to exactly what happened inside that burning house.

Someone’s told him exactly how the tragedy unfolded and we as news viewers were entitled to know who that was.

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