Thalia Hakin
A photo of Thalia Hakin amid floral and soft-toy tributes at the site of last January's Bourke Street tragedy. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 3, 2019, 12:01 am
Hakins: ‘Little consolation’
THE father of murdered Jewish schoolgirl Thalia Hakin has expressed relief that the ordeal of experiencing James Gargasoulas' trial is finally over, after his daughter's murderer – who killed six people in a 2017 car rampage – was convicted and jailed for 46 years.
A photo of Thalia amid the floral tributes at the site of the Bourke Street tragedy last year. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 15, 2018, 12:01 am
Gargasoulas found guilty
MELBOURNE man James Gargasoulas, 28, has been found guilty of multiple murders after a car rampage in Bourke Street in January last year during which 10-year-old Beth Rivkah Ladies College student Thalia Hakin and five other pedestrians were run down and killed.
A photo of Thalia amid the floral tributes at the site of the Bourke Street tragedy last year. Photo: Peter Haskin
June 29, 2018, 12:01 am
Jury unable to agree on fitness for trial
A JURY in the Supreme Court of Victoria tasked with deciding whether accused Bourke Street murderer Dimitrious Gargasoulas is fit to stand trial has been discharged after failing to come to a unanimous decision.
The image of Thalia on screen at the Royal Exhibition building. Photo: Peter Haskin.
January 25, 2018, 12:01 am
‘A gift from heaven’
"LOOK at the picture of Thalia … and our dog, Benji. Just enjoying the simple things in life. Does it remind you of someone?" asked Tony Hakin as he referred to the photo of his daughter, Thalia, hand outstretched upon the family dog with her younger sister in tow. The image beamed across the screens of Melbourne's Royal Exhibition building this week. It has been one year since the Hakin family was rocked by the Bourke Street tragedy, when the 10-year-old Beth Rivkah student was tragically killed in the car rampage on January 20, 2017. 
By Rebecca Davis
A photo of Thalia Hakin at the site of the Bourke Street attack in January 2017. Photo: Peter Haskin
December 20, 2017, 1:00 pm
Bourke Street rampage ‘not guilty’ plea
The man accused of a car rampage in Bourke Street in January, which killed six people, including a young Jewish girl, faced a directions hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday.
Noel Kessel with The AJN's three awards. Photo: Salty Dingo Media.
September 8, 2017, 12:01 am
AJN scores awards hat-trick
FOR the second year in a row, The Australian Jewish News has been named Best Publication at the NSW Premier's Multicultural Media Awards.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Gutnick writing in the Torah with Tony and Maggie Hakin looking on.
March 10, 2017, 12:01 am
A Torah for Thalia
A TORAH is being written to honour Thalia Hakin, the 10-year-old Beth Rivkah student who was tragically killed when she was struck by a car in Melbourne’s Bourke Street tragedy.
The inspirational letter Thalia Hakin wrote in 2015.
January 26, 2017, 7:16 am
The words of an angel
“Now the world is dark, but soon to be bright for us”, wrote Thalia Hakin in 2015, the girl tragically killed in last Friday's attack in Bourke Street Mall.
By Joshua Levi
The funeral procession on Wednesday. Photo: Peter Haskin
January 25, 2017, 2:13 pm
Thalia mourned at Beth Rivkah
THE devastation was palpable as hundreds of mourners gathered outside Beth Rivkah Ladies College on Wednesday morning where the funeral procession for Thalia Hakin stopped for a short service on the way to Lyndhurst Cemetery.
Maggie and her dad Tony outside Beth Rivkah on Wednesday. Photo: Peter Haskin
January 25, 2017, 2:09 pm
‘A piece of my heart is gone’
THALIA Hakin was remembered as a sweet little girl and a little Shabbat candle who brought light and happiness to the world at her funeral on Wednesday afternoon.
January 21, 2017, 8:30 pm
Community mourns ‘happy and bubbly’ Thalia
THE Jewish community is in mourning following the death of 10-year-old Thalia Hakin, who was killed in Friday’s car ramming attack in Melbourne.
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