The harrowing details about the four-year-old child left behind after Ms Brown was killed were detailed in a victim impact statement read to the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday by Ms Brown’s mother, Natalie Hinton.

CHAPTER 1: TARA’S EIGHT DAYS OF TERROR ON RUN

CHAPTER 2: FROM $250K BIKIE KING TO DEPTHS OF SUICIDE

CHAPTER 3: TARA BROWN’S DESPERATE ESCAPE PLAN

CHAPTER 4: TARA WAS ‘EVERYTHING TO ME’: PATEA

Ms Hinton read her heartbreaking statement alongside her partner Jonny Gardner while looking Patea directly in eye, as he sat handcuffed in the dock.

“Aria has gone from saying ‘I want mummy, I miss mummy’ to ‘I want to see mummy’,” Ms Hinton said.

“And then just the other week, she asked ... ‘will I be getting another mummy just like my mummy?’.”

Patea, who had a blank look on his face, looked forward and did not make eye contact with Ms Hinton as she broke down several times in front of the man who killed her daughter.

Ms Hinton told the court of a “joyful” and beautiful young woman whose “dimples and smiles were always at hand”.

“The world was her oyster. Then you, a self-centred monster, entered her life,” she said to Patea through tears.

“It was soon after I saw domestic violence ... unravel in front of me. I watched as a sense of comfort was created that made Tara feel as though the relationship was going well but I knew what was really happening as he was constantly seeking validation and making games.

“Then I watched as the gas-lighting tactics came into use, which I saw heightened Tara’s sense of self doubt ... The monster was now into control ... she feared him, which in turn increased my fear of him.”

The court heard Ms Brown and Aria had a “bond like no other” and were “inseparable”.

“And at the tender age of three, her innocent life was destroyed by his choice of shameful, shameful and cowardly (behaviour),” she said of Patea.

“What father would do this to his own child?”

The court was told how Ms Hinton spent many days cuddling and comforting Aria’s “tears of missing mummy”.

“Her sobs, all the heartache and sadness, the weight and intensity of her sobs, is her saddest thing ever.

“Aria is confused and does not entirely understand the concept of her mother’s death.

“She is not aware of the full extent of this monster’s brutality on the day of the incident.”

Ms Hinton recalled the moment she was told her daughter had been injured.

She said she knew Patea had “found her and he had hurt her”.

“I was oblivious to the extent of his sickening, horrific actions,” she said.

“There lay Tara in the hospital. Motionless, bandaged bruised, black and blue, broken and swollen. A shadow of her beauty.

“And then I was told those words no parent should never ever have to hear in their lifetime: ‘the magnitude of Tara’s injuries are fatal and she is not going to make it’.

“ ... My whole world caved in around me. This misogynistic, narcissistic man murdered my baby girl.

“My life was not the same. Everything changed forever because of one person’s selfish act.”

Ms Hinton thanked those who had supported the family since Ms Brown’s death.

“Tara’s death has impacted our nation. I am beginning to see welcome changes to laws, education, awareness and tolerance of society, as the appalling cost of human lives to domestic and family violence has become a national tragedy of grossest proportions.

“I am overwhelmed and extremely grateful for everyone who has supported us through this through this horrendous experience.”