VERY sad to hear of the death of the beautiful Tara Brown last night of another victim of domestic violence.

She died in hospital after injuries received from being bashed while she lay injured in her vehicle.

And then there were the lovely photos of her with her daughter circulating through social media.

Her friends and family shattered.

Everyone knows someone who is or has been a victim of domestic violence.

Twenty years ago I knew an old man who stood in the middle of the roadway with a loaded shotgun pointed at a man who was terrorising his granddaughter and his great grand child.

The old man has since passed and we smile at the time he did the Clint Eastwood thing and held family law court in the middle of the roadway in the middle of the night.

The man got the message and never came back.

His granddaughter and his great grandson led normal happy lives without him and without fear. Let's have more men speaking out against domestic violence.

Lyn Laskus

Emu Park