FAMILY’S COURAGE We FORGAVE our girl’s killer
Ilove you,’ Maria said as we wrapped up our daily phone call. ‘Love you too,’ I said, smiling at the thought of my kind, joyful, 24-year-old daughter. I had no idea this was the last time I’d hear her sweet voice.
Whether she was helping her big brother Joshua, then 27, or buying me beautiful flowers for Valentine’s Day, Maria was always thinking about other people.
‘Mum,’ she announced excitedly one day in 2017, ‘I’ve applied
