Hours before her life was cruelly taken from her in a Sydney shopping centre, new mum Ash Good was posting a video to her Instagram of her nine-month-old baby Harriet smiling in her car seat. The sun beams on the little girl’s face as she nibbles on a piece of bread and the song My Girl by The Temptations plays. “I’ve got sunshine, on a cloudy day.
When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May,” the band sings. Less than eight hours later, Ms Good and Harriet were shopping in Westfield Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s east, when a man armed with a hunting knife launched a violent stabbing attack through the shopping centre. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
Horrified witnesses spoke of how the 40-year-old attacker, shot dead by police on Saturday afternoon, targeted Harriet and then turned on Ms Good, stabbing her as well. In a final act of heroism, Ms Good ran to two brothers in the shop and begged them to take her baby. They used clothes from the nearby racks to try and stem the bleeding on both the mother and daughter but Ms Good’s injuries were too severe.
She died in St Vincent’s Hospital on Saturday night at the age of 38. Harriet has undergone emergency surgery in Sydney Children’s Hospital for multiple stab wounds to her abdomen. Ms Good was one of seven people — five women, one man, plus the male perpetrator — to die in the horrific attack that has left the nation reeling.
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