A WOMAN whose sister died in a knife attack has shared her heartbreaking story about how she can’t answer questions from people asking if they have siblings.
Michaela Dunn, 24, was horrifically slaughtered by Mert Ney, 23, at an apartment in Sydney, Australia, on August 13, 2019.
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He had paid the sex worker £136 for a “girlfriend experience”Before murdering the tragic 24-yearold.
The murderer sickeningly boasted of the crime in a video to his pal, while being covered in blood and going on a violent rampage around the city.
Michaela lay dead in her flat, having had her throat slit so deeply that the blade reached her spinal chord.
The murderer turned twisted pleaded guilty to Michaela’s murder and was sentenced to 44 years in prison. However, her family is serving a life sentence.
Three years after Michaela’s tragic loss, Emily, Emily’s sister, opened up to share the pain and heartache of her family.
She said that she often feels overwhelmed by grief during seemingly normal conversations with her peers.
Emily told 7News: “Often now people ask me, ‘Do you have any siblings?’
“And I don’t know how to answer that question. ‘Oh, well, I did’.
“But I hate talking about Mickie in the past tense. I think that’s part of the tragedy, knowing she could have done anything, but we’ll just never know what she would have gone on to do.”
She shared the story of how she and Michaela had a relationship. “typical”As children, they were inseparable because of their sisterly bond.
Emily continued: “We constantly got on each other’s nerves all the same time.
“There were four and a half years between us, we’d get up to all sorts of mischief together. We were involved in many sports.
“We did swimming for a while, we’d do pretty much everything together.
“And then, as we got older, she caught the travel bug and we couldn’t stop her – just exploring Europe.
“When you’re 24, you’re still early days. She still had so much to learn and so little to experience.
“She’d just started doing an online fashion course on her own clothes. She had so much left to learn.”
I think that’s part of the tragedy, knowing she could have done anything, but we’ll just never know what she would have gone on to do.
Emily Dunn
Michaela sustained serious injuries to her arms and hands when she attempted to resist the vile Ney.
Before the killer went on his rampage through the streets, the murderer fled her apartment. Lin Bo was a witness.
While screaming, he terrorized the locals with a blood-stained knife. “Allahu Akbar”Perform an ISIS salute, and even jump on the roof of a vehicle.
Courageous locals saw the chaos and chased Ney. He had suffered from mental illness and had consumed valium and marijuana before the stabbing. Then they pinned him to the ground with a milk container.
After defeating the 23-year old, Paul and Luke O’Shaughnessy, Brit brothers and Lee Cuthbert were called heroes.
Emily paid tribute the brave onlookers that managed to capture the killer until police arrived.
She said: “People who step in, in those sorts of scenarios, I don’t think they’re thinking really about the danger at the time.
“Which speaks mountains about the sort of people they are.”
Ney stated to officers that he wanted to be killed by cops “but the good Samaritans spoiled it”.
He was sentenced for 44 years in prison and must serve at least 33 years to be eligible for parole.
Justice Peter Johnson described his crime in a description of a “cruel, brutal and terrifying attack made for no reason.”
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