Safa Annour was a hanging, smiling little two-year-old lady. Her hair was bunched in cute little yellow ties. Her eyes twinkling. Her smile partaking.
And her completely satisfied little wave — to the bus driver who dropped her off on Monday, April 30, 2018 — would soften your coronary heart.
That exact same day, at simply earlier than 2pm, Safa was taken to the Canberra Hospital with accidents that may show deadly.
A autopsy examination proved that these accidents — blunt drive inflicting deadly inner bleeding — had been attributable to one other individual.
However, the truth that this harmless little lady had been murdered within the nation’s capital was not revealed by ACT Police for greater than six months.
When it was lastly publicly revealed, together with the CCTV from that bus journey, ACT Police made a public enchantment for info — whereas releasing solely tiny snippets themselves.
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And since then, over greater than 5 years — virtually nothing.
No inquest. No household appeals. No public vigils. No social media outcry.
Which is what bothered journalist Daniel Jervis-Bardy a lot.
Dan’s day job is reporting on the corridors of energy in Canberra for The West Australian.
However he has additionally made the homicide of this youngster — and the seeming clean house that adopted — his enterprise.
And so, he started his personal investigation and wrote an essay concerning the troubling case — which is ready to be revealed by Penguin Books within the New 12 months.
