This Monday, their faces appear on the front pages of Australian media. Two days after the Sydney stabbing, all six victims have been identified. Among them, Dawn Singleton, the youngest of them.
Aged 25, she was one of the daughters of John Singleton, advertising mogul. A wealthy 82-year-old Australian entrepreneur whose fortune is estimated at $820 million. The young woman was killed while she went shopping in the shopping center where the assailant Joel Cauchi was. According to several of her friends, she had come to buy makeup and had only been there for fifteen minutes.
About to get married
Her fiancé, a police officer, was on duty when the attack took place. Alerted, he rushed to the scene and was the first to discover that she was one of the victims, according to Daily Telegraph. The couple, who had been dating since high school, were about to get married. The young woman had bought her dress the previous week, indicates the media 7news.
“Dawn, I should be writing your wedding speech, but here I am, sobbing. This year you were supposed to marry the love of your life. My heart hurts so much and I can’t believe it,” one of her friends wrote on his Facebook account, thus paying homage to him. “Dawn was someone special to us, she felt like a member of the family,” the start-up White Fox, where the young woman worked as an assistant, said in a statement. And added: “She was a gentle and generous person who had her whole life ahead of her. She was truly amazing. »