Hopes fade as the day passes – TERROR HITS HOME – COUNTING THE TOLL: [1 Edition]
Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Oct 2002: 2.
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Michelle Dunlop, 30, a Sydney investment banker with Westpac, was still missing last night.
The family went through an emotional roller coaster yesterday when another woman named Michelle, with an unknown surname, was brought to Australia. But she turned out not to their Michelle. “It is very distressing,” her sister Karen said last night.
Behic Summer, a computer software programmer from Sydney in his early 40s, was still missing last night. His brother Mustafa said: “All his workmates are calling, everyone loved him. These crazy people, whoever did it.”
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MANY Australian families waited throughout the day for news of their loved ones. For many the news was simply disastrous.
A tearful David Stewart, father of 29-year-old Melbourne electrician and football fanatic Anthony, said the family had had a very hard time.
“We lost his twin brother four years ago. We were preparing for his anniversary and then this happens.
“He and the other boys were in the middle of the dancefloor when the bomb went off. He copped the full blast.”
The father of Robert Thwaites, 24, said they believed the body of his son had been found.
A body of similar size found next to some of his friends is believed to be Robert. But so little was left of the body that this will have to be confirmed through dental records today.
“It looks like he is definitely dead,” Geoff Thwaites said last night.
“He just graduated from university at the end of last year. He was an honours degree student at Griffith University on the Gold Coast.”
Mr Thwaites described his son as “a positive man.
“He had everything to live for. He knew what he was going to do. He was preparing to take over the family company.
“He was very very capable. It’s very tough, very tough.”
Michelle Dunlop, 30, a Sydney investment banker with Westpac, was still missing last night.
The family went through an emotional roller coaster yesterday when another woman named Michelle, with an unknown surname, was brought to Australia. But she turned out not to their Michelle. “It is very distressing,” her sister Karen said last night.
Behic Summer, a computer software programmer from Sydney in his early 40s, was still missing last night. His brother Mustafa said: “All his workmates are calling, everyone loved him. These crazy people, whoever did it.”