Brave mum’s life after tragedy ‘THE RABBIT WHO IS HEALING ME’
Most nights, Hussein Al-Umari’s affectionate pet rabbit George would sleep under his bed.
But when the 35-year-old tourism worker was murdered in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, Hussein’s bedroom door had to be kept shut for the police to take fingerprints.
For two months, the wee cottontail bunny waited for his master to return and slept outside the bedroom door as if to guard it.
“They were so attached to each other,” remembers Hussein’s mother Janna Ezat. “When Hussein left us, George waited and waited outside his door. I’m not sure whether he was sick or just heartbroken, but George stopped eating and passed away not long after.”
To help with her own healing from the trauma of losing her son, Janna would go and feed the farm animals at Christchurch’s Willowbank Wildlife
