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DonViejo

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Wed Feb 8, 2017, 10:00 AM Feb 2017

'My daughter's death will not be used': Parents furious over Trump's false terrorism claims

By Avi Selk February 7 at 7:04 PM




Her daughter had not yet been buried, nor had the newspapers finished turning up bloody details of her death, before Rosie Ayliffe began to write about her child's murderer.

“Grief is a funny thing,” she wrote in the Independent last August — five days after a man chased her 21-year-old daughter through a hostel, stabbed her to death and killed another backpacker who tried to protect her. “I haven't seen Mia for nearly a year, and so in my head she's still alive, well and living in Australia.”

She was careful, even then, to write accurately about the accused killer. Smail Ayad had yelled “Allahu akbar” during the attack, the Guardian reported, but he had also rambled incoherently, stabbed a dog and “was apparently infatuated with” her daughter.

“Much nonsense is being spoken in the press about her alleged killer,” Ayliffe wrote. He “is not an Islamic fundamentalist, he has never set foot in a mosque.” Likewise, police ruled out terrorism, and the Ayad murder case was transferred to a mental-health court.

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'My daughter's death will not be used': Parents furious over Trump's false terrorism claims (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
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