Mum’s heartbreak as daughter Alicia Maree Little’s killer faces freedom
Alicia Maree Little’s mother is “raw” the man who killed her beloved daughter, after a relationship allegedly marred by terrifying violence, is about to walk free after less than three years behind bars.
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A mother is disgusted that the man who killed her daughter after terrorising her with violence is about to walk free after just over two and-a-half years.
Alicia Maree Little died when her partner Charles McKenzie Ross Evans ran her over in a car at their Kyneton property in December, 2017.
Evans had previously inflicted domestic assaults on Ms Little, one of which left her in hospital, and her family said she lived in fear of him.
But, after initially being charged with homicide offences, he was only able to be sentenced on charges of dangerous driving causing death and failing to help Ms Little.
Ms Little’s mother Lee said she had been told Evans would be released on parole and relocated to New South Wales on August 25.
“It feels like yesterday,” Lee Little said.
“The rawness of it is still here. There’s not a day goes by when you don’t think of it.”
Evidence of Evans’ attacks on Ms Little were not allowed to be considered in his sentencing.
But the heartbroken mother said she had been contacted to say the Coroner would be examining her daughter’s case.
“They wouldn’t let the domestic violence into the (court) case but now they’re doing an inquiry into it,” Lee Little said.
“I had the proof. I took photos and they weren’t used.”
The Little family had a meeting with Attorney-General Jill Hennessy last year who, she said, was understanding of the family’s plight and wanting to make changes in the future and the coronial inquiry would be part of that.
“She was fantastic. Our main beef was why the domestic violence part of it wasn’t in (court),” Lee Little said.
Ms Little was planning to leave Evans on the day of her death and had already packed her bags.
She predicted “drama” in a text message sent to her mother in the period before Evans drove into her, fatally injuring the 41-year-old.
Evans argued he had not intended to hit Ms Little, though he did lie to investigators about the circumstances of the tragedy.
The Herald Sun later revealed claims he had previously assaulted a domestic partner in New South Wales.
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