Lizzie Pearl reflects on a sorrow day of her career. 9News
I won't go into the details of the Sydney Siege. Sadly, after lengthy investigations, including a Coroner's inquest, it's a story we know too well.
In the hours that followed the information trickled through. Three people killed, two innocent lives... the third was the gunman killed by police. Many had been evacuated, leaving their desks mid-morning as a gunman filled with hatred carried out his evil plan. As they returned, there were worried looks up towards the cafe, which had been cordoned off by police.
The pile grew so big so quickly, it had to be gently moved across the road, bunch by bunch, by council workers. The flowers became a place of deep sadness, where grief was written in the tears of well-suited businessmen standing in shocked silence. It was a difficult place to be; surrounded by so much sadness day after day, so much weight and darkness. But the "sea of flowers" became a place where the city would start to heal, a place where I truly felt everything was going to be alright.
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