AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 21, 2019
By Jack Kerr
A sister of killed exchange student Aiia Maasarwe has taken to social media to express her grief over the death, and her contempt for the manner in which it is alleged to have happened.
“A little girl with BIG dreams, that how Aiia was,” Noor Maasarwe posted on Instagram alongside a painting of the words “Dare to dream”, which was done by her sister in 2014.
“She was living a dream in Melbourne, a dream that ended up being [worse] than a nightmare.”
The body of the 21-year-old Arab-Israeli student was found by passers-by near a tram stop in Bundoora, in Melbourne’s north, shortly after dawn last Wednesday.
Police allege she was raped and murdered on her way home from a comedy club in North Melbourne shortly after midnight. They have charged 20-year-old Codey Herrmann.
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