Dad can’t sit in dark after daughter’s death

News.com.au - 06/04
Australian businessman John Singleton has opened up about losing his daughter nearly a year after she was killed in the Bondi Junction attack, revealing he now cries when the lights go out at the movies and has stopped drinking.

Australian businessman John Singleton has opened up about losing his daughter nearly a year after she was killed in the Bondi Junction attack, revealing he now cries when the lights go out at the movies and has stopped drinking.

Dawn Singleton, Yixuan Cheng, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, Ashlee Good, Jade Young and Pikria Darchia were all killed at Bondi Junction on April 13 last year after Joel Cauchi stabbed them.

Several others were injured in the attack before NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who was in the area, single-handedly followed Cauchi through the centre and shot him.

Ms Singleton was just 25 when she went to the Bondi Junction shopping centre to shop for her upcoming wedding to her childhood sweetheart.

Dawn Singleton was killed in the Bondi Junction stabbing attack. Picture: Supplied

Her father, John Singleton, described Dawn as a “beautiful little girl” who “beamed with happiness”in a gut-wrenching interview with Tracy Grimshaw on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening.

“I used to call her Dawnie Perfect … she was just perfect,” Mr Singleton told the program.

“No one could speak ill of Dawnie because she, in many ways, she was too soft for this world.

“And to see someone so gentle and vulnerable have her life concluded like this, it probably makes it 10 times worse.”

Ms Singleton was shopping for her wedding when she was killed. Picture: https://www.facebook.com/dgsingleton

Mr Singleton said he was “doing a...
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