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A mourner holds a mass card at the memorial mass for Jill Meagher in Louth last year. Julien Behal/PA

Tributes paid to Jill Meagher one year on

Melbourne residents have planned a peace march to honour the Irish woman on 29 September.

THE FAMILY OF murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher paid tribute to her over the weekend as residents of the Melbourne suburb she lived in prepare for another peace march.

The Louth woman was raped and killed last year by 41-year-old Adrian Bayley, as she walked home from a night out with work friends. Her body was found in a shallow grave six days after she went missing. Bayley, who had a string of previous convictions for sexual and violent offences, has been jailed for 35 years.

On Facebook over the weekend, the woman’s husband, Tom, issued a message of thanks to the public for its support over the last year.

A massive thank you to all of you wonderful people who have supported us so selflessly since Jill was taken from us last year. I don’t know how I would have coped without all of your love and kindness. Thank you.

A peace march to the laneway where the woman was murdered will take place in Melbourne on Sunday 29 September.

Read: Mayor of town where Jill Meagher was murdered visits her family in Drogheda>

Read: Jill Meagher’s rapist and killer jailed for at least 35 years>

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 9:05 AM

    Hard to believe its been a year. This story struck such a chord with me; I think it’s because every woman has experienced that feeling while walking alone that someone talking to you is dodgy. I cannot begin to imagine the sheer terror if you realised you were right.
    May she be at rest now and her poor husband and family find some peace x

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 8:37 AM

    RIP x

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 9:14 AM

    I hope they’ve thrown away the key : RIP

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 9:35 AM

    Unfortunately he has appealed his sentence.

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 9:57 AM

    I hope he rots

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 11:20 AM

    Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Glad the messages and support has helped her husband, family and friends.

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 12:38 PM

    That animal should have been put down

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 12:45 PM

    Seeing his pics makes my skin crawl, she seemed like a real friendly type girl, hope da husband is doing ok .

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 4:10 PM

    Sad ! But i also remember a woman being beaten to death and put in the boot of a car by a gang of men who then set fire to it roughly around the same time . Let us not forget all victims .

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    Sep 23rd 2013, 4:10 PM

    Up the country.

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