Parents of murdered youth visit graveside
PA Timaru The parents of the murdered Timaru youth, Travis Murney, will be at his funeral in Melbourne today. The 191 cm (6ft 3in) farmworker was stabbed to death in the Melbourne suburb of Thomastown on Friday evening as he walked from a hotel to his home 2km away. His parents, Ann and
Terry Murney, arrived at Tullamarine Airport the same evening from New Zealand and had planned to meet him at 8 a.m. the next day. “He was to come over to see us at eight in the morning and I was going Christmas shopping with him,” Mrs Murney said. Her son, who loved working on farms, went to Aus-
tralia nine months ago and worked on farms in Numurkah, north-central Victoria, and Tocumwal, southern New South Wales, before getting an “in-between” job with Uni Strut, she said. ’ “He was so looking forward to all of us getting together for Christmas,” she said. “I grieve for him but I grieve too for the person who did it.”
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