VICTORIA - Breaches of bail conditions and the fears of a woman who told police her abusive husband threatened to kill her and her family were not enough to result in the man's arrest in the weeks prior to a bloody five-person murder-suicide inside an Oak Bay home, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday.

Jurors heard Peter Lee breached bail conditions that required him to stay away from his wife and family several times before to their deaths last September, but the infractions were not serious enough to result in his bail being revoked.

Lee, 38, was scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 4,. to discuss issues with his bail, but he arrived at the family home prior to the court date. His wife Sunny, six-year-old son Christian and Sunny's mother and father, Kum Lea Chun and Moon Kyu Park, died in a knife attack.

The coroner's service said Lee, a Navy reservist, suffered multiple self-inflicted stab wounds and also died in the same incident. A 10-centimetre, double-edged military-style diving knife was seized from the home.

At the time of the deaths last September, Lee was on bail on charges of attempting to injure his wife in a car crash on July 31.

The jury saw chilling video evidence on Monday of police interviewing an injured and fearful Park hours after the car crash.

Park, with bandages along her nose and a blanket over her shoulders and broken right arm, said on the video that her husband told her he would kill her, their son, her parents and her sister if she proceded with her plans for a divorce.

Victoria Police Det. Isabel Ohman, who interviewed Park after the car crash, testified she knew Park had fears about her husband, but in the weeks before her death, Lee did not do enough to revoke his release conditions.

"The intent was not there,'' she said.

After the July 31 crash, Lee was released on bail on a $5,000 cash payment. He was ordered to have no direct or indirect contact with his wife, to live with his sister in Coquitlam, to not possess any weapons and to stay away from the couple's Victoria Korean restaurant.

In mid-August, the inquest heard Lee called Park and asked to speak to his son. She hung up the phone and Lee did not call back.

Ohman said the incident was a minimal breach of his bail.

He later called a dentist where his son had an appointment and asked to speak to his son, she said. That was also not a breach and neither was it a breach when he ran into members of Park's family accidentally at an immigration office, Ohman said.

Ohman said police warned Lee that he could end up in jail if he did not comply with his bail conditions.

"He was very co-operative,'' she said.