Search results
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.
- Mum convinced her daughter’s killer will strike again
3 min read. November 24, 2020 - 3:19PM. Sonia Anderson is...
- Mum convinced her daughter’s killer will strike again
In an exclusive story to air tonight at 6.00pm, Sonia Anderson confronts Dr Grant at the launch night of his book, accusing him of profiting from murder. 9NEWS cameras were rolling as the grieving mother hijacked the event, sparking a mass audience walkout. crime. murder. jail. queensland. 6pm news. CONTACT US.
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. A lush lawn flanked by tall gums, too beautiful a place for too violent an act. “Too cruel,” she says. She pads slowly to a bitumen car park.
- Trent Dalton
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
Jun 16, 2018 · Sonia Anderson confronted Donald Grant at the launch of his book Killer Instinct. She accused him of purposely keeping her daughter's final words from her. Grant wrote Bianca Girven asked Rhys...
Feb 9, 2018 · February 9, 2018 - 11:00AM. 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.
