VICTORIA - A coroner's jury watched a chilling video Monday in which a terrified woman told police how she was worried her husband's anger, violence and his fixation with knives could eventually lead him to harm his family.

"He would kill everything," Sunny Park said in the videotaped police interview on July 31, 2007.

She quoted him as saying: "I'll kill everybody and I'll kill myself if I divorce him.'"

Five weeks after Park sat in that stark police interview room and explained her fears, she and her six-year-old son and her parents were stabbed to death in their home and her husband killed himself.

Park told an interviewer she came to the police station because she was afraid of what her husband, Peter Lee, might do to her parents and the couple's son, Christian.

The interview took place on the day Park was injured after the family vehicle her husband was driving crashed.

"We have a lot of knives," she said on the tape.

"He carries knives everywhere. He said it's his habit."

She said her husband had a knife in his pocket and one in his car.

Park told police he beat her in the past and knew where to hit her where it would hurt but not leave evidence. She pointed to her temple.

Park is heard asking police if her husband had been released and she was told he was in custody.

Lee was later released on bail conditions that included staying away from his wife and the family home.

On Sept. 4, police were called to the Lee home in Oak Bay, where they found the bodies of five people: Park, Lee, their son and Park's parents Kum Lea Chun and Moon Kyu Park.

They had all suffered multiple stab wounds and Lee was the last to die, the coroner's service said last September. Police have said they believe Lee killed them before killing himself.

In the video, Park is seen with a blanket around her and a white-tape bandage down her nose. The blanket covered her right arm, which was broken in the crash.

Lee was later charged with deliberately trying to hurt his wife in the crash.

"Why are you at the police (station) tonight?" the officer interviewing Park said on the videotape.

"I don't want him to go home," said Park. "I'm scared he might do something to my parents, and my sister and Christian."

Park described the morning accident and said her husband asked her to sit in the back seat of the family car while he continually asked her if their shaky marriage was coming to an end.

"There's no way that we can get back together," Park said in the interview. "It's not healthy for both of us."

Park said her husband asked to hold her hand and kept saying: "'Are you sure? Are you sure?' He just keep asking, 'Are you sure?"'

The Land Rover then crashed into a power pole, shearing the pole and coming to a stop against a tree.

But in his videotaped interview with police, Lee denied causing the accident to purposely harm his wife.

"What do you think should happen to somebody who intentionally hurt his wife by causing a motor vehicle accident?" said Det.-Sgt. Scott McGregor.

Lee, his arms folded across his chest, said nothing other than to mumble about getting legal advice.

Lee did say he wanted to get a message to his son to tell him "everything's OK."

The coroners jury heard McGregor tell Lee on the video that he had no doubt Lee attempted to hurt or kill his wife in the crash but said he didn't think at the time Lee was a "homicidal maniac."

The provincial government called the coroner's inquest shortly after the deaths after a public outcry over the justice system's handling of the case

Park, taking drinks from a juice box, explained during the interview that her husband had a bad temper, especially when he lost money gambling.

She told the officer Lee had recently started complaining that he didn't like her Korean parents because they were controlling the relationship.

Park told officers her parents came to live with the family, but Lee started to tell Park's parents to go back to Korea.

She said Lee accused her of having an affair with an unnamed person at the couple's Korean restaurant in Victoria.

"He started to blame my family," she said.

Park said she would say to her husband, "I can take everything what you are doing but don't blame my family or Christian."

Members of Lee's family left the courthouse while the video was being played.

Lee's sister, Lisa Yi, testified earlier her brother was a kind man who was distraught over the breakup of his marriage, but she said she had never seen him violent.

Yi said her brother was the baby of the family, which included four sisters.

"He was very generous, kind, very funny. He was really fun to be around," she said softly.

She said Lee loved diving and flying, but she was also aware of his gambling problems.

Yi, a businesswoman from suburban Vancouver, said she sensed difficulties in the relationship between Lee and Park.

"He was very sad. He was nervous," she said. "He tried to make everything smooth with Sunny. My family don't want to say anything bad about Sunny's family."

John Orr, the lawyer for the inquest, said other witnesses will include Park's sister, who had been living at the home in Oak Bay but was not there when the murders occurred.

Among the other 28 witnesses expected to testify during the 10-day inquest will be Victoria police officers who will give evidence about their handling of Lee in the month before the murders.

Officers had recommended he remain in custody after staging the crash that injured his wife.

Outside of the courthouse, representatives of victim's service groups said they have been granted permission to participate in the inquest, a move that is unprecedented in British Columbia.

The B.C. Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs provides support and training for service programs that specialize in responding to domestic violence, criminal harassment, sexual assault and child abuse.

"There seems to be a growing number of women and children dying as a result of domestic violence," said spokeswoman Tracy Porteous.