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Speaker 1: So if you tuned into the show yesterday, we were

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Speaker 1: outraged by the fact that a twenty one year old

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Speaker 1: man who crashed a stolen car into an industrial shed

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Speaker 1: in Yarrawonga in June last year, killing a forty six

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Speaker 1: year old man inside, had been sentenced to just two

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Speaker 1: years and five months jail. Now family of the victim

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Speaker 1: contacted the show yesterday wanting to share their side of

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Speaker 1: the story, and joining me on the line is the

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Speaker 1: forty six year old man's sister, Tara Aorton. Good morning, Tara.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time to have

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Speaker 1: a chat with me today. Tara, what was your reaction

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Speaker 1: to the sentence.

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Speaker 2: We're obviously very, very hurt by the outcome of it.

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Speaker 2: It's not the price for a life that we feel

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Speaker 2: considering everything that the man got up to that night.

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Speaker 2: It's been horrible, actually.

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Speaker 1: Tara, I can't even begin to imagine how your family

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Speaker 1: must feel. You know, I've got two older brothers myself.

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Speaker 1: I love them with every inch of me. I you know,

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Speaker 1: to then think that your brother's life has been lost

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Speaker 1: and two and a half years is the sentence for it,

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Speaker 1: there must be an enormous sense of injustice from your family.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, absolutely. Unfortunately, the evidence that they had to

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Speaker 2: go off wasn't enough to convict the man of certain things.

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Speaker 2: So the sentence for the death of my brother was

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Speaker 2: careless driving causing death, which has a max of two years,

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Speaker 2: and he got twenty two months for that.

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Speaker 1: So by the sounds of it, the reality is that

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Speaker 1: the judge has imposed the maximum that she could, but

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Speaker 1: the evidence that was provided or the charges that this

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Speaker 1: person was up on, you know, I weren't as strong

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Speaker 1: as what I'm sure your family had hoped.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely absolutely. The car theft itself has a max

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Speaker 2: of five years and he only got six months for that,

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Speaker 2: so that was quite shocking in itself. Actually, yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: So can you tell me what you know of that night?

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to cross any boundaries for you.

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Speaker 1: I know this must be a difficult thing for you

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Speaker 1: to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Yep, No, that's fine. So on the night my brother

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Speaker 2: was he's been he was living with my mother at

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Speaker 2: the time and both of my brothers have a workshop

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Speaker 2: in Yarawanga and they work together, and he just came

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Speaker 2: home and said, my mother because he's been out fishing

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Speaker 2: and is just going to drop his boat off at

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Speaker 2: the workshop, and he obviously didn't come home. He's parked

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Speaker 2: his car on the side of the workshop. It was running,

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Speaker 2: the lights were on on the vehicles. He's gone into

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Speaker 2: side door of the shed and turned the lights on.

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Speaker 2: He was in the shed obviously doing whatever he was doing.

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Speaker 2: And this man's come down the driveway, walked past the

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Speaker 2: open roller door shed and it was the only lit

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Speaker 2: up workshop in a complex of eight workshops. And he's

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Speaker 2: jumped in the sidecar, obviously thinking he could take a chance,

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Speaker 2: and then he's turned to the steering wheel right hooked

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Speaker 2: it right around and put his foot down and gone

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Speaker 2: straight through the front of the shed door and hit

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Speaker 2: my brother with the bull bar. He then put it in,

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Speaker 2: reversed and tried to reverse it out. Obviously he couldn't

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Speaker 2: because there was a concrete, plants and debris blocking it.

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Speaker 2: And then he's just taken off and he went further

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Speaker 2: to gun and broke into four other houses that night.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Tara, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to hear

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Speaker 1: what you are telling us this morning. Can you tell

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Speaker 1: me about your brother Luke?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are all born and bred Territory in me

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Speaker 2: both my older brothers. My family had a business here

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Speaker 2: which both my brothers worked for. He was a true

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Speaker 2: born hard fisherman, loved the outdoors. He was larger than life.

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Speaker 2: He was loud and just funny, and he would light

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Speaker 2: up a room, Tara.

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Speaker 1: So often in these situations, you know, we talk a

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Speaker 1: lot about the offender, and we hear a lot about

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Speaker 1: the offender, and in this case, you know, we we're talking.

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Speaker 1: We've obviously spoken about, you know, about the sentencing. But

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Speaker 1: I feel like so often we don't hear what we

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Speaker 1: should about the victim, and we don't hear about the

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Speaker 1: loss that a family like yours has had to endure

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Speaker 1: over what is such a shitty crime.

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Speaker 2: Been Yeah, stuff made a nightmare truth be told, especially

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Speaker 2: for my parents. It wasn't just my father that found him.

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Speaker 2: My mum was first on the scene before the police

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Speaker 2: got there, and she saw him underneath the Tara's car

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Speaker 2: because it was his car.

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Speaker 1: Tara, I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry for your loss.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I can't even imagine it. I can't

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Speaker 1: even imagine the heartbreak that your family must be feeling.

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Speaker 1: If you you know, if your brother could be remembered

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Speaker 1: in one way, what would you like that to be.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's really hearty with so many things, so so

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Speaker 2: larger than life. He's just the biggest protector. He would

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Speaker 2: he would help anyone that he could.

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Speaker 1: Tara, We've had so many people contact us at the

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Speaker 1: station since that incident occurred and since your brother's life

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Speaker 1: was lost, and that indicates to me that your brother

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Speaker 1: meant a lot to a lot of people. And I'm

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Speaker 1: really grateful that you've joined me this morning to talk

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Speaker 1: on the show about this whole situation and that you've

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Speaker 1: had the courage to do that. Yeah, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for speaking to us about Luke. And from the

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Speaker 1: bottom of my heart, my sincerest condolences to you and

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Speaker 1: your beautiful family for what you've had to go through.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We really appreciate that. If I can,

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Speaker 2: can I just say something, of course she can. The

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Speaker 2: mother and the brother of the man that did kill

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Speaker 2: my brother, they did come and apologize to me after

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Speaker 2: their court case, and I just want to say that

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Speaker 2: I appreciated that and thank them. So it must have

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Speaker 2: been really hard for them to do that.

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Speaker 1: Tyra, thank you, Thank you. For telling us that as well.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time this morning. So much. Love

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.