Ray Hadley reveals he made the heartbreaking call to John Singleton about daughter Dawn’s death

Ray Hadley has choked back tears as he revealed he was the person who broke the tragic news to his good friend John Singleton that his daughter had been killed in the Bondi Junction attack.

Talkback radio host Ray Hadley has revealed he was forced to break the tragic news of advertising executive John Singleton’s daughter to him, following the horror Bondi Junction massacre.

Dawn Singleton, 25, was killed as she walked through the busy shopping centre on Saturday afternoon.

Sydney radio host Hadley said he was contacted by his good friend Singleton on Saturday night, desperate to confirm if his daughter was one of the victims.

“I rang him and he said, ‘I think my Dawnie is one of those who lost their life and I cant confirm it. Can you do something?” Hadley explained on 3AW radio.”

Hadley told his Melbourne counterpart he sprung into action.

2GB Radio's Ray Hadley and John Singleton are close mates. Picture: Justin Lloyd

“I rang the police commissioner and asked her if she had any names and she said only one, and confirmed it was Dawn,” Hadley said while holding back tears.

“And I had the job of ringing John back and unofficially confirming that his dear darling daughter had been stabbed to death by this lunatic.”

John Singleton with his “perfect Dawnie” when she was a child. Picture: Glenn Hampson

The daughter of the millionaire businessman was shopping for makeup for her upcoming wedding to a NSW Police officer before she was one of six people stabbed to death, by Joel Cauchi.

She had a wedding dress fitting just last week and sent out save-the-date invitations ahead of marrying her childhood sweetheart Ashley Wildey.

Dawn Singleton and her NSW policeman partner Ash Wildey were planning their wedding. Picture: Facebook

“She’d just gone in to buy makeup at Chanel, she was only there for 15 minutes, looking at makeup for her wedding,” a friend said.

A family friend of Mr Wildey said the wedding had been booked at a venue in Arcadia, in Sydney’s northwest. “She only bought her wedding dress last week,” the friend said.

Ms Singleton is one of three daughters Singleton had during his marriage to lawyer Julie Martin. Those close to Ms Martin have remembered Ms Singleton as an “absolutely beautiful girl”. However, they are devastated that neither her mother or Mr Wildey had been able to formally identify the body by Sunday afternoon. “They don’t even know when they can see her,” one source said. Ms Singleton and Mr Wildey had been together since high school, having met in the eastern suburbs social circle. “They are childhood sweethearts, each other’s first boyfriend and girlfriend,” a source said.

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