‘She was the best and someone to look up to’

The memory of Jill Meagher will live on and future generations will be told, “she was the best and someone to look up to”.

Jill’s cousin Joy McKeon, 20, said the family were happy to have received “some sort of justice”, but that no matter what the sentence, they were never going to get Jill back.

Joy, who like Jill, has an interest in media, was with her father Michael, speaking at their home in Drogheda, Co Louth, after the sentencing of Adrian Bayley to life in prison for Jill’s rape and murder.