The family of murdered mother-of-one Ashlee Good broke down as they laid flowers at the Westfield Bondi Junction memorial today.
Osteopath Ms Good, 38, was shopping with her nine-month-old baby, Harriet, on Saturday afternoon when Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed them with a 30cm-long hunting knife.
One of Ms Good’s final acts was to thrust Harriet into the arms of strangers begging them to ‘please help, help’.
Two brothers, using clothes from the Tommy Hilfiger store, stemmed the baby’s bleeding before she was rushed to hospital to undergo emergency surgery.
Harriet is now in a serious but stable condition. She was being monitored in the Intensive Care Unit but on Tuesday evening she has was discharged into a normal ward within the hospital.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ms Good’s shattered parents and family members visited the sea of flowers, messages and teddy bears left at the makeshift memorial outside Westfield Bondi Junction.
Osteopath Ash Good (pictured), 38, was shopping with her nine-month-old baby, Harriet, on Saturday afternoon when Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed them with a 30cm-long hunting knife
A relative, wearing dark glasses and holding stuffed toys, was comforted by high-profile defamation lawyer, Rebekah Giles, who was a close friend of Ashlee and had been with her just moments before the stabbing.
She had left the scene but raced back after news of the stabbing rampage spread, only to discover that her close friend was among the victims.
Ms Giles most recently represented ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach, the man responsible for sensationally blowing open Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial.
The outpouring of public grief for Ms Good has prompted generous Australians to donate over $460,000 to a fundraiser for her partner, Dan, and motherless child.
Her mother, wearing dark glasses and holding stuffed toys, was comforted by high-profile defamation lawyer, Rebekah Giles, who was a close friend of Ashlee and had been with her just moments before the stabbing (pictured)
‘Ash was a ray of sunshine and positivity in every aspect of her life and died a hero saving her little girl from the most unspeakable evil,’ GoFundMe organiser Steven Foxwell wrote.
Ms Good’s father was the former North Melbourne AFL player and board member Kerry Good.
She was remembered by her family as a ‘beautiful mother, daughter, sister, partner, friend’ and an ‘all-round outstanding human’.
Ms Good was one of six victims of crazed knifeman Cauchi, who was later shot dead by a female police officer.
Advertising heiress Dawn Singleton, 25, architect Jade Young, 47, artist Pikria Darchia, 55, security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, and Chinese student Yixuan Cheng, 27, died at the scene.
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