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<\/p>\nThe family of a young woman found dead in a Melbourne apartment block overnight has told the ABC they had serious concerns about her safety and had recently sought help from police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twenty-one-year-old Jayda Allen Bonner was described by her aunt as a “gentle soul” with a “heart of gold.”<\/p>\n
“[She] would do anything to help anybody,” Kellie Carter-Bell said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
She said Jayda was a Yagera woman with family in Queensland.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives are investigating after police were called to an apartment in the inner-city suburb of Carlton in the early hours of Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities said they were called to the apartment on Cardigan Street just before 2am and when they arrived, found the body of a woman.<\/p>\n
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Jayda Allen Bonner’s family says they had recently raised concerns with police about her safety. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
While investigations are underway and no charges have been laid, Ms Carter-Bell said the family had been so concerned about Jayda’s welfare that they had recently sought help from police.<\/p>\n
“The really horrible, horrible thing is that the system’s so broken that about six weeks ago, we begged for their help,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We begged for their help, and because we were ringing them and not Jayda, their attitude was, ‘Well, what do you want us to do?'”<\/p>\n
Victoria Police did not respond to the family’s claim, with a spokesperson telling the ABC it could not comment while an investigation was underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Man arrested, then released<\/p>\n
Police said a 60-year-old man was arrested and interviewed nearby after a crime scene was established in Carlton, but has since been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forensic detectives were seen removing evidence from the complex on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Carter-Bell said she wanted the community to see Ms Allen Bonner’s picture so they could understand her story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We are absolutely devastated,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We need people to know that the system is so broken,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a young woman found dead in a Melbourne apartment block overnight has told the ABC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,6856,1300,39043,5315,491216,44,1158],"class_list":["post-923375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlton","tag-death","tag-domestic-violence","tag-investigation","tag-jayda-allen-bonner","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923375","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=923375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}