Laura Byrne was overcome with emotion on Monday as she spoke about the Westfield Bondi Junction massacre.
The 37-year-old broke down on her Life Uncut podcast when she revealed that the show’s producer, Keeshia, was friends with Dr. Ashlee Good, who died after being stabbed at the mall over the weekend.
“Producer Keeshia is a friend of Ash, the mother who was murdered,” said an emotional Laura.
Keeshia continued: ‘I’m sure many of you have read about Ashlee Good. We became friends a couple of years ago. One of my closest friends for over two decades is Ash’s best friend.
‘Everything that is said about her is completely true. She was the human sunshine. She was simply the most positive, joyful, beautiful human being. Her greatest achievement was being a mother.”
Laura Byrne (pictured) was overcome with emotion on Monday as she spoke about the Westfield Bondi Junction massacre.
Police were called to the shopping area at 3.20pm on Saturday when Joel Cauchi, brandishing a large hunting knife, chased men, women and children.
Footage posted online showed terrified shoppers running outside to escape or taking shelter in stores as a siren blared downtown, urging shoppers to evacuate.
Inspector Amy Scott was patrolling nearby and was the first to arrive on the scene. She entered the shopping center alone and bravely ran towards the offender, before shooting Cauchi dead as he lunged towards her with the knife.
Five other people died at the scene, including new mother Dr Good, 38, who died in hospital on Saturday night after the attack.
Good’s nine-month-old daughter was also injured in the attack and is still in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.
The 37-year-old broke down on her Life Uncut podcast when she revealed that the show’s producer Keeshia (pictured) was friends with Dr Ashlee Good, who died after being stabbed in the shopping centre.
Ashlee Good (pictured), died at St Vincent’s Hospital on Saturday night after being stabbed in the rampage.
Dawn Singleton, 25, daughter of billionaire advertising guru John Singleton, was the second victim identified.
Double Bay architect and mother-of-two Jade Young was identified as the third victim of Sunday’s attack, along with security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, and artist and designer Pikria Darchia, 55.
Chinese national Yixuan Cheng was identified as the sixth fatality on Monday morning.
Twelve people were taken to hospital after the attack, three of them still in critical condition, eight stable and one discharged.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns lay flowers at the site of Saturday’s mass stabbing in Bondi Junction.
Yixuan Cheng died after Joel Cauchi fatally stabbed six people and injured at least 12 more in a violent attack.
Deputy Commissioner Cooke said there were also other people who were injured in the attack and who left Westfield and later reported to medical facilities.
Cauchi has since been identified as a Queensland man who moved to Sydney in recent months.
He suffered from schizophrenia and lived a transient lifestyle, and police treated the tragedy as a mental health incident.
Faraz Tahir, 30, tragically lost his life while serving the public as a security guard during this attack. He was a refugee from Pakistan.
Dawn Singleton, the 25-year-old daughter of billionaire businessman John Singleton, also lost her life.
The mall and surrounding streets remained closed Monday as police continue to search the crime scene for forensic evidence.
Police launched a critical incident team made up of homicide detectives and created Strike Force Mcauley to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.
The investigation will also be subject to independent review.
Jade Young (pictured), of Bellevue Hill, died in the attack.
Pikria Darchia (pictured), 55, who describes herself as an artist on LinkedIn and is understood to be originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, was the fifth victim identified.