Price also said her nephew, who is now eight and lives in Tasmania, had been the subject of schoolyard bullying in relation to his mother’s death.
“He has been tormented at school by other children, saying nasty things like, ‘You haven’t got a mum, your mum’s dead. This affects [him] and upsets him so much’,” she said.
Ricardo Barbaro arrives at the Supreme Court on Monday.Credit: Joe Armao
“How do you answer to a child asking why his mother isn’t here any more?”
Ellie Price’s mother, Tracey Gangell, told the court her own life was irrevocably damaged since her daughter’s murder.
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“This is a pain you can’t describe, an emptiness you can’t fulfil,” she told the court.
“My life has fallen apart since you left. What parent needs to be writing this? None in the world.
“I don’t even go out and see my friends any more … they don’t ask any more, because they know I would say no.”
Price and her killer dated from October 2019 until the May 2020 murder, when she succumbed to multiple stab wounds, including one across her larynx.
Barbaro had left the scene in Price’s Mercedes-Benz before dumping the vehicle at a Diggers Rest property, northwest of Melbourne.
He fled to NSW after media reports sought his whereabouts.
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