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Jun 16, 2018 · EIGHT years ago, Sonia Anderson’s daughter Bianca Faith Girven, 22, was strangled to death by her abusive partner in a Brisbane park. Since her death, Ms Anderson has been campaigning for support for domestic violence victims, lobbying to change laws and donated thousands of her own dollars and hours to volunteer work.
Nov 24, 2020 · Sonia Anderson is convinced her daughter’s killer will strike again if he’s allowed to walk the streets. It’s why she gets regular updates on his condition and writes a letter every six months to make sure he never gets the chance to take a life again.
Dr Grant has since published the book Killer Instinct and Sonia Anderson, Bianca’s mother, said it’s the first time she found out what her daughter said as she was killed. “I knew she had been strangled to death, I knew it took 10 minutes but I never knew the last words,” Ms Anderson told 9NEWS.
Feb 9, 2018 · SONIA Anderson didn’t get to choose where her 22-year-old daughter was murdered by her abusive partner but she did get to make peace with the exact place it happened, by turning a tree right near where she was strangled into a memorial.
The controversy this week involving Sonia Anderson, the mother who was “blindsided” by the publication of a book by a forensic psychiatrist who interviewed her daughter’s killer, is a stark reminder of the Pandora’s box of emotion and ethics that is opened when writing about true crime.
- Alan Whiticker
Sonia Anderson stands in the place where her daughter, Bianca Girven, was murdered by her boyfriend, Rhys Austin, in 2010. Gertrude Petty Place at the foot of Brisbane’s Mount Gravatt Lookout.
Mar 27, 2019 · Sonia Anderson, whose daughter Bianca Girven was killed by Austin, applied for the reports after being angered by psychiatrist Donald Grant’s book on killers he had assessed.
