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Speaker 1: From The Australian a special bonus episode of the Front

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Speaker 1: for You Today. I'm Claire Harvey, Aaron Patterson's victim, the

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Speaker 1: only man to survive her fatal mushroom lunch, has told

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Speaker 1: the triple murderer he forgives her.

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Speaker 2: I make an offer of forgiveness to Erin. Now I

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Speaker 2: am no longer Aaron Patterson's victim, and she has become

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Speaker 2: the victim of my kindness.

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Speaker 1: That's a voice actor reading the words of Ian Wilkinson,

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Speaker 1: a Baptist pastor whose wife Heather and in laws Dawn

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Speaker 1: and Gail Patterson were murdered by Aaron Patterson. He was

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Speaker 1: reading a victim impact statement at Aaron Patterson's plea hearing,

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Speaker 1: where a Victorian Supreme Court judge will decide what sentence

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Speaker 1: Patterson will face. Today you'll hear Ian Wilkinson's statement in full,

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Speaker 1: plus Aaron Patterson's husband Simon, who lost his parents and

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Speaker 1: other family members. Ian Wilkinson is the man who lived

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Speaker 1: the only survivor of Aaron Patterson's murderous rampage. When he

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Speaker 1: gave evidence during the trial. Ian Wilkinson, who is pastor

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Speaker 1: of the Cornborough Baptist Church, was composed and even genial,

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Speaker 1: sharing smiles and the old laugh with the court. But

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Speaker 1: on Monday, when he entered the witness box to face

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Speaker 1: the woman who murdered his wife and tried to murder him,

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Speaker 1: Wilkinson's voice was heavy with emotion. We've used voice actors

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Speaker 1: throughout this episode to read the words spoken in court.

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Speaker 2: Your honor, I would like to begin with a few

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Speaker 2: words about my beautiful wife, Heather. She was compassionate, intelligent, brave, witty,

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Speaker 2: simply a delightful person who loves sharing life with others.

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Speaker 2: Like everyone else, she had faults, but she actively sought

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Speaker 2: to overcome them so that she could live peacefully and

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Speaker 2: constructively with all people. She was generous in her attitudes

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Speaker 2: and with her resources. If she could help somebody, she would.

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Speaker 2: Heather had a great sense of humor and it was

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Speaker 2: a joy to be in her company. She loved learning

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Speaker 2: and had a special interest in languages. She was a

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Speaker 2: wonderful wife. We shared a very close marriage relationship for

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Speaker 2: forty four years. Heather was always supportive and encouraging to me.

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Speaker 2: She was wise and had skills that made up for

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Speaker 2: my shortcomings. Together, we faced life as a team, and

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Speaker 2: we were delighted in each other's company. We shared a

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Speaker 2: our own particular interests. Heather was a great mum to

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Speaker 2: our four children. We agreed together she would be a

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Speaker 2: stay at home mum. She loved our children and believed

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Speaker 2: her greatest work was to raise them to be good

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Speaker 2: people with values of care for each other in the

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Speaker 2: family and for other people beyond the family. I think

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Speaker 2: that the way our children conducted themselves through the crisis

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Speaker 2: of our illness and the subsequent legal proceedings is a

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Speaker 2: testament to her mothering skills. Our children were thrown into

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Speaker 2: an unprecedented situation in which they suddenly had to take

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Speaker 2: medical responsibility for the lives of their parents. The trauma

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Speaker 2: that they experienced at their mother's death and at my

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Speaker 2: near death has left deep wounds. I'm deeply grieved by

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Speaker 2: their ongoing pain. Heather was a proud grandma who loved

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Speaker 2: each of our six grandchildren. Heather took an active interest

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Speaker 2: Family events are no longer the same. A very important

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Speaker 2: member of our family is missing. Heather was also a

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Speaker 2: fellow traveler with me in the Way of Jesus, along

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Speaker 2: with many other people her faith very seriously. It shaped

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Speaker 2: her life. In the way that she lived. Heather was

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Speaker 2: full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and

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Speaker 2: self control, all the fruits of the spirit of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Living in her. We encouraged each other and urged each

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Speaker 2: She had a particular compassion for strugglers and disadvantage people,

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Speaker 2: and that was reflected in the teaching mentoring work she

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Speaker 2: our children reached secondary age. I could go on. There's

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Speaker 2: so much more that deserves to be said about Heather.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the distressing shortcomings of our society that

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Speaker 2: impact of Erin's actions on me has been to deprive

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Speaker 2: me of Heather's gold company and Heather's important place in

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Speaker 2: our family. The silence in our home is a daily

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Speaker 2: reminder I continue to carry a heavy burden of grief

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Speaker 2: over her untimely death. It's a truly horrible thought to

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Speaker 2: I only feel half alive without her. My consolation is

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Speaker 2: that we will be reunited in the resurrection and the

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Speaker 2: age to come in a similar vein. The second heaviest

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Speaker 2: impact on me has been the loss of Don and Gale.

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Speaker 2: They were the next two closest people to me after

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Speaker 2: Heather and our family. And again there were good and

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Speaker 2: solid people. No doubt their families will say more about them,

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Speaker 2: They were also serious about following Jesus, and we encouraged

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Speaker 2: is greatly impoverished without them. I have suffered severe personal

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Speaker 2: impacts from Eron's actions. I very very nearly died. It

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Speaker 2: has taken me the best part of two years for

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Speaker 2: I have. I praise God for my miraculous healing, and

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Speaker 2: I thank the many medical professionals who strive to save

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Speaker 2: all four of us. They threw everything into our care.

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Speaker 2: I joke that I know this because I have a

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Speaker 2: It's a grief to them that Heather, Gale and Don died.

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Speaker 2: Although I've made a good recovery, my health has never

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Speaker 2: I have reduced kidney function, ongoing respiratory issues, and reduced energy.

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Speaker 2: I've had to face the many challenges of re establishing

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Speaker 2: life without Heather. The challenge of vastly changed social circumstances

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Speaker 2: I'm suddenly single, the heartbreak of having to wind up

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Speaker 2: her affairs, returning to pastoral work without her help and

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Speaker 2: sage advice, unsettled sleep, Nobody to share in life's daily tasks,

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Speaker 2: which has taken much of the joy out of pottering

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day. The impacts are so

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Speaker 2: many and varied, some big and a myriad of small

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Speaker 2: things that no list could ever contain them. I am

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Speaker 2: distressed that Erin has acted with callous and calculated disregard

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Speaker 2: for my life and the life of those I love.

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Speaker 2: What foolishness possesses a person to think that murder could

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Speaker 2: be the solution to their problems, especially the murder of

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Speaker 2: people who had only good intentions towards her. Erin has

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Speaker 2: brought deep sorrow and grief into my life and the

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Speaker 2: lives of many others. The ripples spread out through family, friends,

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Speaker 2: our congregation, the local community, and beyond. In regard to

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Speaker 2: the many harms done to me, I make an offer

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Speaker 2: of forgiveness to Erin. I say harms done to me Advisedly,

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Speaker 2: I have no power or responsibility to forgive harms done

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Speaker 2: to others. In regards to the murder of Heather, Gale

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Speaker 2: and Don I am compelled to seek justice. However, I

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Speaker 2: do encourage Erin to receive my offer of forgiveness for

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Speaker 2: those harms done to me with full confession and repentance.

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Speaker 2: I bear her no ill will. My prayer for her

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Speaker 2: is that she will use her time in jail wisely

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Speaker 2: to become a better person. Now I am no longer

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Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson's victim, and she has become the victim of

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Speaker 2: my kindness. Thank you for hearing me, your honor.

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Speaker 1: The next person to read a victim impact statement was

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Speaker 1: Ruth Dubois, the daughter of Heather and Ian Wilkinson. Dubois

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Speaker 1: entered court alongside Ian Wilkinson, as she had throughout Patterson's trial.

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Speaker 3: Your honor, I am the daughter of Heather and Ian

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Speaker 3: Wilkinson Wettier start How could you possibly reduce who these

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Speaker 3: people were and the depth and extent of our loss,

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Speaker 3: grief and trauma down to just a few words on

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Speaker 3: a page. On the twenty ninth of July twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: four generations of our families, ranging from newborn to ninety

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Speaker 3: nine years old, countless friends, and the wider community were

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Speaker 3: handed a lifetime of carrying this unimaginable horror. Mum had

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Speaker 3: seemingly endless amounts of energy. She was generous and kind,

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Speaker 3: She truly worked to love others and wanted the best

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Speaker 3: wonderful example of a mother, and one I have continually

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Speaker 3: and someone I cherish deeply. She was the person I

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Speaker 3: went to for advice, the person i'd call when I

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Speaker 3: She was somebody I trusted with both the best parts

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Speaker 3: and worst parts of myself, knowing there would be no judgment.

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Speaker 3: Her love as a mother shone evidently in her words

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Speaker 3: and actions right up until she left us. Her final

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Speaker 3: conversations with us were not about herself. She was more

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Speaker 3: she was about her sudden and unexpected health crisis. I

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Speaker 3: Don and Gail were a constant in my life grow up,

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Speaker 3: spending time with the family at our respective homes in

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Speaker 3: the community, and a church. I won't say too much,

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Speaker 3: but I did want to highlight the kind, thoughtful, and

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Speaker 3: gentle natures of both Don and Gaale. They both cared

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Speaker 3: generous in their interactions with people. We grew up in

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Speaker 3: look for the best in people. It is horrible to

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Speaker 3: know that it's these good attributes that we use to

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Speaker 3: The world seems colder and harsher Knowing this, then, for

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Speaker 3: these people who showed nothing but love and care for her,

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Speaker 3: ate a meal that would kill. It's beyond anything I

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Speaker 3: The events we witnessed in hospital felt like an endless nightmare,

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Speaker 3: and now we've heard in court how seemingly normal life

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Speaker 3: continued for the offender. It is difficult to comprehend how

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Speaker 3: someone could spend months planning this out, researching, collecting the

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Speaker 3: followed up by the extraordinary lies and the absolute lack

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Speaker 3: during this process she could have stopped, She could have

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Speaker 3: But instead, at every step of the way, she chose

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Speaker 3: to follow through. I constantly feel a weight of sadness

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Speaker 3: about the wider impacts to the community this crime has caused,

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Speaker 3: and the vast number of people outside our family who

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Speaker 3: have been affected, some who we've never even met. The

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Speaker 3: medical staff who had to witness and care for the victims,

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Speaker 3: the investigators, people who had to witness in court, shop

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Speaker 3: owners who have had their names and businesses scrutinized, the

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Speaker 3: mushroom growing industry, the health department, tax payers. The list

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Speaker 3: just seems endless, and I'm horrified that our family is

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Speaker 3: even associated, through no choice of our own, with such

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Speaker 3: destructive behavior towards the community. This crime has changed every

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Speaker 3: part of my life. How I view the world is

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Speaker 3: very different. My life will never be the same. It

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Speaker 3: has changed the way I interact with people and has

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Speaker 3: been very isolating. The intense man coverage has left me

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Speaker 3: second guessing every word I say, worried about who I

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Speaker 3: can trust with my thoughts and feelings. It is particularly

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Speaker 3: revolting to experience our family's tragedy being turned into entertainment

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Speaker 3: for the masses, and to know that people are using

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Speaker 3: our family trauma for their own personal gain. As a mother,

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Speaker 3: experience all the wonderful things this world has to offer,

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Speaker 3: and to teach them the skills to manage through the

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Speaker 3: hard things. Your instincts are to want to shield and

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Speaker 3: protect your children from the horrors that can happen. These

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Speaker 1: Simon Patterson is Aaron Patterson's husband. He believes his wife

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Speaker 6: My nightmares made reel. Would Don, Gale, Heather and Ian,

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Speaker 6: stays like that forever. So how has this crime affected

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Speaker 6: my life? I now find myself consciously trying to soak

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Speaker 6: in every moment I get to spend with my amazing

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Speaker 1: The Australian broke the story of the mass murder in

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Speaker 1: leand Gatham in July twenty twenty three, and we've reported

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Speaker 1: it with fairness and calm ever since. We've not at

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Speaker 1: any point invaded the privacy of the Pattison or Wilkinson families.

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Speaker 1: We've approached them to tell their stories and respectfully left

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Speaker 1: them alone when they requested privacy. You can read all

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