Many people look forward to Saturdays because they are leisurely days spent with loved ones. Elizabeth Young, however, “dreads” him. Every week, she is reminded of the brutal death of her daughter Jade in Westfield Bondi Junction.<\/p>\n
“On a lovely the changing seasons afternoon, discovering that your daughter is dead, wounded in broad daylight, killed amidst fellow unaware shoppers… [when she] was living, breathing, just an hour ago… it’s the stuff of nightmares, of a parallel universe,” Elizabeth told a murder inquiry this last week. Our normal lives were upended the instant [the assailant] carelessly stabbed Jade.<\/p>\n
On the concluding day of a five-week coronial inquest into the deadly stabbings on April 13 of last year, the relatives of the other victims spoke movingly, echoing her anguish. The investigation aimed to determine how a 40-year-old Queensland man with a lengthy history of mental illness managed to enter a well-known Sydney shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon and murder six people while wounding ten more, including a baby who was nine months old.<\/p>\n
In order to determine how or whether Australia can stop a catastrophe like this from happening again, the court heard hours of testimony from dozens of witnesses, including physicians, survivors, victims’ relatives, and police.<\/p>\n
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