An official in the Catholic Church in Australia has apologised after a priest said murdered Irishwoman Jill Meagher would have been “home in bed” the night she was killed had her religious faith been stronger.

The husband of Jill Meagher, the Drogheda woman raped and murdered in Australia two years ago, has spoken out about his wife’s killer, saying he will never be able to forgive him.

It took superhuman effort to talk at all in the face of such appalling tragedy, but Edith McKeon somehow found the strength to thank the thousands that turned out in support of her murdered daughter.