
Every day Tom Meagher lives with the haunting reality of his wife’s murder. Jill’s life was taken by a stranger, a serial rapist, who attacked her as she walked home in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick on September 22, 2012.
Consider living with that horror, that grief, and reading headline after headline reporting the slaying of yet another woman. Seventeen-year-old Masa Vukotic. School teacher Stephanie Scott. Comedian Eurydice Dixon. And this week, Aiia Maasarwa, 21.
After news of the Isreali student’s death in Bundoora broke on Wednesday, Tom spoke up. Enraged, exhausted.
“I am so thoroughly sick to my stomach of men murdering women,” he tweeted. “The human cost of male violence is staggering, the incalculable social trauma & human misery it engenders is soul destroying. It’s [sic] weight is intolerable #EndMVAW [men’s violence against women]
“RIP Aiia & love to her family.”
