Bayley jailed for 35 years for Jill Meagher’s rape, murder (The Age)
The doves flew up and up, then dived and circled back towards Jill’s father [George McKeon] and the gathering. They then flew west in formation, away from him, towards Perth where he lives and onward, perhaps, towards Ireland.
The hug he then locked into with Jill’s husband Tom Meagher seemed endless and unable to be tighter. The silence at this point was deafening. The doves had gone. The music that played throughout the service had stopped. Meagher had earlier bade her farewell with the words: “Goodbye, my beautiful, funny girl. I will love you forever.”
He also used the gaelic phrase “slán abhaile mo chara”, meaning “safe home my friend”.
Yet Meagher also remembered his mischievous, impulsive wife as a person who cried at television sitcom themes, got a tattoo she regretted and had 20 jobs in 17 months.
Edith McKeon — Jill’s small Irish mother with an enormous personality — was perhaps behind the unusual funeral touch of some of the women wearing outlandish-coloured high heels.
The unnamed artist is believed to have painted the [20-metre long] tribute along the wall of the Forum Theatre between midday and 7pm yesterday.
Hosier Lane is one of Melbourne’s most iconic laneways and is world-renowned for its diverse mix of street art. It constantly evolves and is a space that has traditionally been shared by Melbourne’s street art community.
Previously: For Jill
Via Aideen Blackwood and The Age
Thanks Mark Geary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dJzCgd0aw
More than 30,000 people gather along Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne, in honour of Jill Meagher.
“I think it’s touched us all because we all feel that it could have been any one of us”, said Virginia Edwards from Spotswood. “I don’t have a friend, including myself, who hasn’t gone for a drink after work and walked off alone to catch a taxi or whatever. It could’ve been our sisters, our mothers, our friends and so we are all hurting for this beautiful girl and her family.”
Dedications to Jill Meagher on Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne, inlcuding outside the Duchess Bridal shop (top) and at Gisbourne South, where Jill’s body was discovered.
Pics: Salvo; Tim irvine; Tania James; The Age;Gianni
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCdrma5QWNk
Police say the footage shows the 29-year-old woman walking outside a bridal dress shop on Brunswick’s Sydney Road at around 1.40am (AEST) on Saturday.
It shows a man in a blue top walking back and forth on Sydney Road. He then starts talking with Ms Meagher outside the bridal store at 1.42am to 1.43am.
She is in high heels and is carrying two bags.
He then walks off ahead of her and she waits behind for a moment, then continues walking.
CCTV Footage Shows Jill Meagher Talking To A Man (Sydney Morning Herald)