A Dandenong woman whose body was found south-west of Melbourne on Saturday has been remembered as a devoted mother who “deserved a life filled with safety, happiness, and peace”.<\/p>\n
Eva Lasrini, 53, was reported missing on Thursday after she failed to contact her family, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 67-year-old man has been charged with murder over her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her friend Gail Porter has started a fundraiser in support of Ms Lasrini’s daughters, Evindra and Vanya, who remained in Indonesia “with very limited support and resources”.<\/p>\n
“With no other family to turn to, they are navigating this heartbreaking loss completely on their own,” Ms Porter wrote on the GoFundMe page.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Evindra and Vanya have lost not only their mother, but their main source of love and support.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Indonesian Consulate-General in Melbourne told the ABC it was working with the Department of Home Affairs and Victoria Police to expedite visas for Ms Lasrini’s daughters to visit Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Lasrini had been studying English and wrote in a February social media post that she had been very busy but enthusiastic about learning.<\/p>\n
“The Australian government has given me a great opportunity to increase my value and improve myself, and I don’t want to waste that opportunity,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
On Saturday afternoon, detectives from the Missing Persons Squad found Ms Lasrini’s body in the vicinity of Little River Road and the Princes Freeway in Little River, about 46 kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the body had yet to be formally identified, but was believed to belong to the missing woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Friday, Victoria Police officers arrested Allen Keys at Melbourne Airport before he boarded an international flight and charged him with murder.<\/p>\n
Mr Keys appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Saturday evening and was remanded in custody to reappear on August 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dandenong woman whose body was found south-west of Melbourne on Saturday has been remembered as a devoted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[287643,64,63,287642,287641,287644,2968,44],"class_list":["post-588502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-allen-keys","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dandenong-woman","tag-eva-lasrini","tag-little-river","tag-murder","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}