“He chose to stay, to look after mum.” Tori Johnson’s final act was one of profound compassion

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“Mum and I were having a quiet moment at home and I said ‘Mum, do you remember at the end I’d got up and was going towards the door, why didn’t you and Tori run?’ because I could never understand why Tori didn’t run. And my mum said to me, ‘Oh, well, I was saying to Tori, you go, you go,’ and she was making this motion like she was elbowing him in the side saying, ‘You go Tori, you go’ and he said to her ‘No, I’ll stay, I’ll stay with you’. So in that moment, 12 months after the event, I suddenly realised that Tori Johnson had made a deliberate choice to stay, to stay and look after my mother. Louisa said that for her whole family, the act was “profound”.

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