Australians collectively grieved for 21-year-old Aiia Maasarwe after she was fatally attacked walking home in Melbourne while on the phone to her sister. Four years on, she's being honoured.
Four years ago, Australians collectively grieved for a 21-year-old woman who was fatally attacked on her way home from a comedy club while speaking to her sister on the phone.
Her body was found hours later, on the morning of 16 January 2019, by a passerby on their way to work.Melbourne comedian Eurydice DixonLa Trobe University held a vigil for students to remember Ms Maasarwe and crowds gathered on the steps of the Victorian Parliament as part of a push to end gender-based violence against women and children.Codey Herrmann, 21, pleaded guilty to her rape and murder and nine months after her death was sentenced to 36 years in prison with a minimum of 30 years.
"This is what she dreamed,” Saeed Masarwe told SBS News of his daughter, who had been studying international relations.
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