Mother of Zoe Buttigieg breaks her silence after video released of her killer being questioned

THE heartbroken mother of a young girl who was molested and murdered in her own home has bravely broken her silence two years on from the horror crime.

THE heartbroken mother of a young girl who was molested and murdered in her own home has bravely broken her silence two years on from the horror crime.

In a tell-all interview Janelle Saunders, says she is haunted every day by the cruel death of her daughter Zoe Buttigieg.

ZOE’S EVIL KILLER WHO MURDERED HER IN HER BEDROOM IS JAILED FOR LIFE

Zoe, 11, was sexually assaulted and strangled in the bedroom of her Wangaratta home during a drug and alcohol fuelled party on October 25, 2016.

Zoe Buttigieg was molested and strangled in her bedroom on October 25, 2016.

Bowe Maddigan pleaded guilty to her murder.

In a preview of an interview which is to air on Channel Nine tonight, Ms Saunders said: “I checked all the rooms, every room but hers and that decision haunts me every day because if I had have opened that door she’d still be here.”

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It comes amid the release of a video showing Zoe’s killer being questioned by detectives after he was arrested barefoot on the side of a highway in the hours after the discovery of her body.

Bowe Maddigan at the Supreme Court. Picture: Hamish Blair

Bowe Maddigan responded to early questions by interviewers with “no comment” before asking “did I hurt the little girl?”.

“It was like a bad movie … I couldn’t stop the button, I couldn’t pause the button, I couldn’t rewind the button. I had to sit through a horror movie,” he said in footage aired on Channel Nine.

Maddigan then goes on to say the evidence against him makes him feel sick.

The detective conducting the interview asks: “If Zoe’s mother was here with us now what would you like to say to her?”

Maddigan responds saying, “I’m eternally sorry for what I’ve done and put you through.”

During his trial, Maddigan said Zoe looked “like an angel” who he wanted “all to himself”.

He pleaded guilty to the crime and was jailed for life, with a non-parole period of 28 years.

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