The mother of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, the British backpacker who was fatally stabbed in Queensland, has revealed her ongoing heartache after losing her daughter.
It has been two months since Mia was so devastatingly killed and Rosie Ayliffe says she was nervous from the moment her daughter left.
“Obviously I was full of anxiety for her,” the mother told the Daily Mail. “I would rather she’d gone Inter-Railing around Europe…but what could I say?
“I wanted her to live her dream. She wanted to do this for so long.”
Rosie last saw her 20-year-old daughter at the local railway station, as she began her journey around the world.
As she hugged her Mia for the the last time she said, “Goodbye, I love you. Be careful.”
“I added, ‘Don’t forget I love you all around the world and back again’.”
Rosie had said those words to her daughter for her entire life, and it was the last thing she heard before departing.
Nothing has eased the pain since the night two police officers knocked on her door on that fateful night in August.
Rosie immediately knew that something wasn’t right and all she could be told was Mia had been “fatally injured”.
“It was only when I phoned the consulate that I found out she had been [allegedly] attacked and killed.”
She has previously written that following the cremation of her daughter, she was planning to spread her ashes all around the world.
“I know some of her friends are struggling with that, because they wanted her body brought home and a cremation or burial here in the Wirksworth area, but she has friends all over the place,” Ms Ayliffe wrote at the time.
“Hence the plan to create a place of remembrance here, but also to give various people vials of Mia’s ashes to scatter in places dear to her or to them.
“That way she can visit places she hasn’t visited yet — Canada, New Zealand, Singapore. People are making huge journeys to mourn her.”
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