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Speaker 1: The Quickie with You. It's hosted by Claire Murphy.
Speaker 2: It was released last month to mark the one year
Speaker 2: anniversary of the tragic death of twenty one year old
Speaker 2: Lily James. She was a waterpolo coach who was murdered
Speaker 2: at her workplace by her ex boyfriend just days after
Speaker 2: their breakup. And in this episode, Claire takes us through
Speaker 2: who Lily was, her relationship with Paul, and the devastating
Speaker 2: events of the night she was killed. Cases like this
Speaker 2: are so important for us to revisit to ensure that
Speaker 2: the stories of victims like Lily aren't forgotten. Tragically, Lily
Speaker 2: is one of fifty eight women who lost their lives
Speaker 2: to domestic violence in twenty twenty three. If you or
Speaker 2: someone you know need support, please reach out to one
Speaker 2: eight hundred Respect on one eight hundred seven three seven
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Speaker 2: what you think of the episode and I'll be back
Speaker 2: next week with another true crime conversation.
Speaker 3: Just a heads up. Today's episode of The Quickie discusses
Speaker 3: domestic violence and does describe some traumatic violent situation, so
Speaker 3: please take care when listening. Hi. I'm Claire Murphy. This
Speaker 3: is Mumma Mes twice daily news podcast The Quickie. On
Speaker 3: Sunday night, Tara Brown sat down with the parents of
Speaker 3: Lily James, the young woman who was brutally murdered by
Speaker 3: her ex boyfriend just days after they'd called an end
Speaker 3: to their brief casual relationship.
Speaker 4: And then, yeah, so that was her, But I had
Speaker 4: to come home, tell Peter Max play those moments every
Speaker 4: day every day.
Speaker 3: Her death shocked the country and made international headlines with
Speaker 3: the amount of pre planning undertaken and seemingly unbridled rage
Speaker 3: her murderer experienced. Today, we remember Lily James a year
Speaker 3: on from her death and find out if we've learned
Speaker 3: anything from her life, or if we've even started to
Speaker 3: get a handle on the level of domestic violence here
Speaker 3: in Australia. In October last year, twenty one year old
Speaker 3: Sidney woman Lily James woke up on a normal Wednesday.
Speaker 3: She got up got dressed and went down to the
Speaker 3: kitchen in her family home, which she shared with her mum, Peter,
Speaker 3: dad Jamie and brother Max. She was heading off to
Speaker 3: face another day filled with friends, study and part time jobs.
Speaker 3: The young woman cramming as much as she could into
Speaker 3: every day, determined to make something of her life, her
Speaker 3: parents saying she managed to balance it all fuelled my
Speaker 3: chocolate and ice cream.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the clock because the train's going to
Speaker 4: come come shortly. She's off in her own little world.
Speaker 4: But she didn't seem agitated, she didn't seem frightened. Nothing.
Speaker 4: It was just a lor normal Wednesday.
Speaker 3: That's Lily's parents, Peter and Jamie, speaking to Channel nine
Speaker 3: sixty minutes program. She'd been working as a swim and
Speaker 3: dance teacher as well as coaching netbull, but in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two she managed to snag a part time position
Speaker 3: at the prestigious s and Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney
Speaker 3: as a water polo coach. It was there she met
Speaker 3: Paul Tyson. He'd moved from the Netherlands to Australia, where
Speaker 3: he was a student at the school himself. Between twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen and twenty seventeen, he went back to the Netherlands
Speaker 3: to study and then took on a role as a
Speaker 3: cricket and hockey coach back at Saint Andrew's in Sydney.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty, he was in the process of studying
Speaker 3: a master's in teaching, hoping to become a full time
Speaker 3: pe teacher. In around September twenty twenty three, Lillian Paul
Speaker 3: started a romantic relationship. It wasn't anything too serious. The
Speaker 3: pair reportedly having a conversation about the fact that then
Speaker 3: working together might become an issue should they ever break up,
Speaker 3: and so chose to keep the relationship casual.
Speaker 5: I had a conversation with her and I said, so
Speaker 5: you're going out and she said yeah, she said and
Speaker 5: I said, so, is it anything that you think will
Speaker 5: be something serious? And she said, mum, she goes. We
Speaker 5: both sat down at the start as a relationship and
Speaker 5: decided that neither of us wanted anything serious. We just
Speaker 5: wanted some fun and once it had run its course,
Speaker 5: we would go our separate ways. There was never meant
Speaker 5: to be any hard feelings.
Speaker 3: Lily's friends explained that they met Paul when Lily brought
Speaker 3: him to a night at one of their houses, telling
Speaker 3: reporter Tara Brown that nothing he did or said on
Speaker 3: the night raised any red flags.
Speaker 5: He was just a very chatty guy.
Speaker 2: She always liked people who talked a lot, because she
Speaker 2: talks a lot. Just very nice.
Speaker 4: He was always very helpful.
Speaker 2: They'd work together and they'd help each other out.
Speaker 3: About two weeks after that catch up with friends, Lily
Speaker 3: and James broke it off, Lily telling her mates that
Speaker 3: it was a very mutual decision. Then, on October twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, the day Lily woke up and joined her
Speaker 3: family for breakfast just like any other Wednesday, Paul Tyson
Speaker 3: rented a car. He then traveled to a nearby hardware
Speaker 3: store and bought a hammer before driving that same car
Speaker 3: to the Saint Andrew's campus. Later that night, at approximately
Speaker 3: seven pm, CCTV cameras capture Lily entering the toilet inside
Speaker 3: the school gymnasium, where she would get changed after water
Speaker 3: polo practice. A few moments later, Tyson can be seen
Speaker 3: also entering the toilet. An hour later, those same cameras
Speaker 3: catch Tyson leaving the toilet, but Lily did not walk
Speaker 3: out behind him. A text message was sent from Lily's
Speaker 3: phone to her father's at eight thirty pm, an hour
Speaker 3: and a half after Lily had entered the toilet block.
Speaker 2: It read don't ask why or call, Please come to
Speaker 2: the school now and pick me up.
Speaker 3: Jamie wrote back immediately asking if she was okay. The
Speaker 3: message back was short.
Speaker 2: All good, just come trouble.
Speaker 3: But when Jamie arrived at Saint Andrews, he found other
Speaker 3: staff members but not his daughter. He searched for her
Speaker 3: at her desk, he found her bag still sitting there.
Speaker 3: He searched the gymnasium, but didn't go into the toilets,
Speaker 3: not knowing that his daughter's body was lying just a
Speaker 3: few meters from where he stood. In a panic, Peter James,
Speaker 3: Lily's mum, texted Lily's friends asking if they'd seen her.
Speaker 3: They all responded with no. She even texted Paul Tyson,
Speaker 3: thinking maybe one of her colleagues would know. Those texts
Speaker 3: went unanswered. At eleven pm, police received an anonymous call
Speaker 3: telling them where to find Lily. Jamie says he knew
Speaker 3: that when police and ambulance arrived at the school and
Speaker 3: he was taken to the station, that the news wasn't going.
Speaker 4: To be good.
Speaker 6: The actual soon itself was quite confronting for the police
Speaker 6: who turned up very sad tom for everybody, not only
Speaker 6: of the families, the student saucer who were turning up
Speaker 6: today to be confronted by this.
Speaker 3: That's Superintendent Martin Foleman from New South Wales Police. When
Speaker 3: asked whether they think Lily sent those texts to her dad,
Speaker 3: her parents say no. Her time of death was suspected
Speaker 3: to be more than an hour before they were sent,
Speaker 3: but they have a theory as to why they were
Speaker 3: sent and it points to a disturbing story of a
Speaker 3: man who wanted to harm a family as much as possible.
Speaker 5: I think, for me, I really think that he was
Speaker 5: hoping that Jamie.
Speaker 4: Would find her.
Speaker 3: In an addressed to students on the Monday that the
Speaker 3: school reopened, Sir Andrew's head of school, doctor Julie McGonagall,
Speaker 3: told those gathered that they were left with grief, shock
Speaker 3: and utter confusion because they knew both parties, our beautiful
Speaker 3: miss James, she said, and mister Tyson, whose actions were
Speaker 3: completely incongruent with who they knew. After tracing the anonymous
Speaker 3: Triple O call, police would establish a second crime scene
Speaker 3: on October twenty sixth, eleven kilometers from where Lily was killed,
Speaker 3: Investigators cordoned off an area of Diamond Bay where they
Speaker 3: located a backpack belonging to Tyson. Inside was the hammer
Speaker 3: that he'd bought on the morning of October twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: Police would also find more CCTV footage from that night,
Speaker 3: showing a car pulling up on the street and then
Speaker 3: a man walking along the footpath. The man would be
Speaker 3: identified as Paul Tyson by the owner of the cameras.
Speaker 3: How would they know him because he'd walked outside the
Speaker 3: home of Lily's friend, the one who'd welcomed Pauline as
Speaker 3: Lily's then boyfriend just weeks earlier. He then sat in
Speaker 3: that rented car, where he then called police. His body
Speaker 3: would be found two days after Lily's murder by tradees
Speaker 3: who spotted a body in the surf offered the notorious
Speaker 3: suicide spot the gap where they'd been working on a
Speaker 3: nearby construction site. Lily's murder came at a time when
Speaker 3: the country was reeling from a string of domestic violence
Speaker 3: related debts. She was the fourth woman in ten days
Speaker 3: to be killed allegedly by the men known to them
Speaker 3: and the forty third woman at that point of the
Speaker 3: year to have been killed in a domestic violence related situation.
Speaker 3: So a year after her death, as her parents speak
Speaker 3: out for the first time on how they're coping with
Speaker 3: the senseless loss of their daughter, has anything changed well.
Speaker 3: According to the Australian Femicide Map, seventy women have been
Speaker 3: lost to violence at this stage in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Phi Lily's family, twelve months may have passed, but their
Speaker 3: pain is as raw as it was on that very
Speaker 3: normal Wednesday.
Speaker 5: Do you think the anger will ever go away? No?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think I wanted to put
Speaker 4: some more good use. You will never go away, Hello,
Speaker 4: letters should go away.
Speaker 5: And I think if he knew what he did that night,
Speaker 5: I think you'd understand why why we can't forgive what
Speaker 5: he did. It's pretty brutal though doesn't make me a
Speaker 5: bad person. I don't know, but at this stage I
Speaker 5: don't care.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking the time to feed your mind with
Speaker 3: us today. If you're in a situation experiencing domestic or
Speaker 3: family violence and you need help, there are services standing
Speaker 3: by right now like one eight hundred Respect who you
Speaker 3: can reach on the phone at one eight hundred seven
Speaker 3: three seven seven three two. You can also text them
Speaker 3: zero four five eight seven three seven seven three two,
Speaker 3: or chat via their website one eight hundred respect dot
Speaker 3: org dot au. The quickie is produced by me Claire
Speaker 3: Murphy and our Executive producer Tayle Estrato, with audio production
Speaker 3: by Jacob Brown,