An alarming number of Australian women have been killed in recent years. Find out more about their lives. Some of the cases are still before the courts. See all 53 stories .

When police arrived at Hannah McGuire’s family home in April 2024 to tell her parents they had found their daughter’s badly burnt body in a torched car, her mother’s primal screams echoed through the town of Clunes.

On Monday, Debbie McGuire told a packed courtroom in Ballarat how those grief-stricken howls still haunt the small central Victorian town to this day.

Hannah McGuire, 23, was found dead in April 2024 in Scarsdale, near Ballarat.

“Words fall short of conveying the profound pain, immense sense of loss and lasting emptiness I have felt since Hannah was taken from me,” the mother of three told the cour

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