Woman's Day

‘My Policeman Husband Was a Hero’

On May 29, 2011, Sonya Leeding put her young children to bed and texted a goodnight message to her husband, who was on night duty at a busy Gold Coast police station. “Have a good night – Ilove you,” she wrote to Damian. “I’ll see you when you get home in the morning.”

Tragically, it wasn’t Damian who woke Sonya in the early hours of the next day, but his colleagues from Coomera

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