Rachel Kefu told Queensland’s supreme court about the impact of the violent attack that left her husband, Toutai Kefu, fighting for his life
Rachel Kefu is plagued by vivid images of her Wallabies star husband and her son bleeding after teenagers armed with a cane-cutting sickle broke into their home.played his 60th rugby union Test match for Australia and their daughter Madison was born.She was speaking on Monday during sentencing proceedings in thesupreme court for two boys, who cannot be named as they were 15 at the time they broke into the Kefu family home in the inner-Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo in 2021.
But instead of taking the opportunity to leave without violence, one teen struck Rachel Kefu with the sickle.Photograph: Chris Bacon/PA Rachel Kefu said she has been in a constant state of hypervigilance since the attack, feels paralysed by fear and often sits at her bedroom window for hours at night.
“The knife wound was done with such force that it chipped the bone and several of the nerves, tendons, ligaments and muscles in my left forearm,” she said.
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