Every day Tom Meagher lives with the haunting reality of his wife’s murder. Jill’s life was taken by a stranger, a serial rapist, who attacked her as she walked home in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick on September 22, 2012.
Consider living with that horror, that grief, and reading headline after headline reporting the slaying of yet another woman. Seventeen-year-old Masa Vukotic. School teacher Stephanie Scott. Comedian Eurydice Dixon. And this week, Aiia Maasarwa, 21.
After news of the Isreali student’s death in Bundoora broke on Wednesday, Tom spoke up. Enraged, exhausted.
“I am so thoroughly sick to my stomach of men murdering women,” he tweeted. “The human cost of male violence is staggering, the incalculable social trauma & human misery it engenders is soul destroying. It’s [sic] weight is intolerable #EndMVAW [men’s violence against women]
“RIP Aiia & love to her family.”
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I can’t believe Bayley even *has* a possible release date, no matter how far into the future it might be. Should have been life without parole. Must be incredibly hard for Tom and all the other families to see this hideous behaviour continue.
Why is everyone leaving Melbourne pastry chef Renea Lau (raped & very brutally murdered in June 2014) off these lists? I’m yet to see anyone mention her. That case probably has the most striking similarities to what happened with Aiia (that we’ve heard so far)
Yeah, you're right, that is a strange exclusion. I sure hope it's not because she's Asian... Qi Yu's name is also not on this list, though I have seen it on others. I guess there has to be a point somewhere or other when you stop naming the simply staggering amount of women who have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid for it with their lives.