Jamieson hit-run victim’s sister can’t find words to tell his daughters how he died

BRYCE Airs’ death is so incomprehensible his sister cannot find the words to explain it to the popular tradie’s two daughters.

Bryce Airs’ sister Corina Stuchbree wants the hit-run driver to come forward. Photo: Channel 7.

BRYCE Airs’ death is so incomprehensible his sister cannot find the words to explain it to the popular tradie’s two daughters.

How do you tell two girls aged eight and 11 their dad was mown down by a four-wheel-drive while walking home from the pub after celebrating a new job with mates and left to die on the side of the road?

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Mr Airs would have celebrated his 44th birthday this Thursday, and sister Corina Stuchbree will do something with their mum to mark the occasion.

But justice for her brother and finding the killer driver is her top priority.

“I don’t understand how they can carry on with everyday life as if nothing has happened knowing what they did,” she told the Herald Sun.

“Have a heart and come forward.”

Ms Stuchbree said her brother’s death had a “big impact” on the family and while his daughters knew their loving father was no longer alive, she could not find the words to explain why.

Corina Stuchbree and brother Bryce Airs. Photo; Supplied

“I’ve not talked to the children about how this happened. They’re too young,” she said.

“I avoid referring to this and just talk about everyday life.”

Police say there a is a chance the much loved tradie and electrician in Jamieson — in the state’s north east — would still be alive if the hit run driver stopped.

Bleeding and crawling in pain along Mansfield-Woods Point Rd, Mr Airs dying words have helped police zero in on the suspects — a pack of illegal hunters, looking to kill deer.

Bryce Airs was a keen hunter himself.

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That makes Ms Stuchbree even angrier and compounds her grief as Mr Airs was also a keen hunter, who did it legally.

“His father taught him how to hunt and to do it legally,” she said.

“This puts hunting in a bad light and reduces public respect for hunters.”

Despite 124 days since Mr Airs death, Ms Stuchbree clings to hope.

“I would ask those responsible to put themselves in my position — how would they feel if it was their brother or father who had been killed like this,” she said.

“I’m thankful that there is still a lot of effort being put into finding out who did this.”

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