(ABC-Australia) In the hours before a 16-year-old boy stabbed a bishop in an alleged terrorism attack at a Sydney church, his parents’ frantic calls to him went unanswered.
Two days earlier, the boy was in tears over the sudden death of a friend.
But when his father arrived to take him to the wake on the evening of Monday, April 15, his son had disappeared from their south-west Sydney home, leaving his dad a watch and a bottle of cologne.
Then, his mother received a phone call, asking if her son was home and OK.
“I felt something wasn’t right,” the boy’s mother told ABC Investigations, speaking publicly for the first time since the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed service at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley a fortnight ago.
(Date based on Australia time)
