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Oh losing Terry's just changed my life.

There's not one part of me that hasn't changed. I just miss his beautiful eyes looking at me, feeling loved.

Terry attended a Mad Monday function for the local country football club. They'd won the premiership the day before and they were celebrating. For some unknown reason, a guy came up and started provoking Terry and then things grew out of hand and Terry then actually retaliated and hit him. And then, after a few minutes, this young man just walked up to him and hit him in the face, and Terry collapsed to the floor.

He was then taken by a helicopter, to the Alfred hospital. He was on life support for 13 days at the hospital then told us that he'd had catastrophic brain damage and that he was no longer living and we had to turn off the life support machine.

Terry and I started fostering nine years ago and we found it really rewarding. He was a wonderful, caring foster carer. He was a gentle kind man to a lot of these children who've never had a passive male role model.

He shouldn't have died. And there was a case to answer for and people need to be responsible. We have a barrister in the family and Demi's name come up as a very passionate and caring person. She's an extraordinary woman and she's passionate about raising awareness about the coward punch.

She didn't want another family to endure what her and her family had to go through. The family feels the venue was responsible that night because they were still serving people that were intoxicated and there wasn't enough security.

The insurer pushed hard in this case. They initially made a really lousy offer and I had to advise Wendy not to accept it. Thankfully, her patience paid off because we settled her case for a lot higher amount.

It was never about money. If I could touch Terry's hand one more time and he was with me I’d just give the world for that.