Rosie Ayliffe (left) tries to avoid the agonising 'what-ifs' as she discusses the life and death of her beautiful daughter Mia (centre; and right, as a child), who was murdered a few weeks before her 21st birthday.
'You can't have regrets,' she says. 'I feel that very strongly, because that's what eats you up and exacerbates the grief.' And there has been no shortage of grief on both sides of the world in the two months since Mia was stabbed to death by a crazed killer in a remote Australian backpackers' hostel - along with another Briton, Tom Jackson, 30, who courageously tried to save her. Rosie recalls how, when she waved Mia goodbye more than a year ago as she set off on her dream trip from their local railway station in Derbyshire's Peak District, she hugged her daughter and said simply: 'Goodbye, I love you. Be careful.'
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