The mother of a girl who was brutally strangled to death has condemned a forensic psychiatrist for publishing a book about the murder – including her daughter’s tragic final words.
Bianca Girven, 22, was throttled to within an inch of her life in an abandoned van at Mt Gravatt on Brisbane’s southside in April 2010, dying in hospital the following day.
Her killer, then-boyfriend Rhys Austin, was found by a court to be of unsound mind and subsequently sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he was interviewed by Doctor Donald Grant, Nine News reports.
Bianca Girven (pictured) was throttled to within an inch of her life in an abandoned van at Mt Gravatt on Brisbane’s southside in April 2010, dying in hospital the following day
Now, the forensic psychiatrist who interviewed her killer has included the shockingly intimate details of the young woman’s death in his new book
Now, some eight years later, Dr Grant has published Killer Instinct: a book that examines ten true crime cases of the past.
And among them, in shocking detail, is the murder of Bianca Girven.
For those close to Ms Girven, the publication offers chillingly intimate revelations about the young mother-of-one’s final moments.
Bianca’s own mother, Sonia Anderson, said that reading the book was the first time she discovered her daughter’s final words.
Ms Girven’s killer, then-boyfriend Rhys Austin (pictured), was found by a court to be of unsound mind and subsequently sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he was interviewed by Dr Grant
‘I knew she had been strangled to death, I knew it took 10 minutes but I never knew the last words,’ Ms Anderson said.
‘Bianca wanted to say goodbye to her son…and that he [the killer] replied ‘no, he will know’.’
Ms Anderson has blasted the author’s use of such personal information, calling it ‘one of the most amazing, disgusting unethical things I can imagine’ and accusing Dr Grant of ‘living off the misery of others’.
Now she’s fighting to have the book taken off the shelves.
Queensland Health said it is making ‘appropriate inquiries’, while it is understood that an investigation is currently underway to see whether any patient confidentially might have been breached by the book’s publication.
Ms Girven’s mother, Sonia Anderson (pictured), said that reading the book was the first time she discovered her daughter’s final words
Ms Anderson has called the use of such personal information ‘one of the most disgusting unethical things I can imagine’ and accused Dr Grant (pictured) of ‘living off the misery of others’