Roz Purcell

We went through, we got all the paperwork in, documents signed, you have to register as a victim.

We did all that.

Their family had always been very private when it came to discussing their sister Elizabeth.

So I think it was quite difficult for Kathleen and Bernadette to be faced with having to put their feelings down on paper.

The feelings we had when somebody actually said to us, can you make a submission?

That was the first time anybody ever asked us to put pen to paper to say how we really felt about

You don't allow yourself to think of things because it makes you so sad.

And then when somebody asks you to say, how did you feel at the time?

And it's like somebody splitting your head open.

It's traumatic, isn't it, Bernie?

It really was.

We prepared their statement, it was in their own words, because they were very definite that they didn't want John Shaw to be released on parole.

So this force of missions that we made was enormous.

Mental, physical, legal.

This way, how it affected you that way.

When Elizabeth died, it completely changed her family.

Bernie was 18.

Our confidence changed.

Felt so insecure, didn't we?

I remember somebody even saying to me, why have you this wall?