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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Adeshola Ore

John Herron to run for Justice party in Victoria state election to ‘fight for’ daughter killed in Royal Park in 2019

Tania Maxwell and John Herron
Justice party MP Tania Maxwell with John Herron, a newly announced upper house candidate for the 2022 Victoria state election. Photograph: Justice Party

The father of killed Melbourne woman Courtney Herron has been announced as a candidate for Derryn Hinch’s Justice party at next month’s Victorian state election.

John Herron, a navy veteran and lawyer with practices in regional Victoria, will run for the party in the upper house, alongside Simone O’Brien, a domestic violence survivor. Justice party MPs Tania Maxwell and Stuart Grimely – elected in 2018 – will contest again, while Hinch, a former federal senator for Victoria, will also run for the upper house.

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