(ABC-Australia) Roger Singaravelu was enjoying an afternoon nap with his five-year-old daughter when he became the victim of a terrorist attack in his suburban Melbourne home.
“I don’t believe I will ever recover,” Mr Singaravelu told the Victorian Supreme Court in his victim impact statement.
“I can’t escape what happened.”
In February 2018, Mr Singaravelu woke to find Momena Shoma stabbing him in the neck and shoulder with a kitchen knife.
The diminutive 25-year-old Bangladeshi student was a homestay guest at Mr Singaravelu’s residence in Mill Park, in Melbourne’s north.
She was yelling “Allahu akbar” and had both hands on the knife, pushing it down with such force it damaged his spine and the tip of the blade broke off, the court was told.
