Newcastle softball teams will come together for a charity gala day at the weekend honouring Stockton grandmother Satcey Klimovitch, who was murdered in her home in mid-2021.
Mrs Klimovitch's family have a long-running association with the Newcastle & District Softball Association, with several relatives playing in the local league and helping to arrange the charity sports day for Saturday, October 12, the organisation's secretary told the Newcastle Herald.
The NDSA published a packed draw card for the gala day, beginning at 8.45am at Mayfield's Stevenson Park, with fundraising and merchandise sales to be directed to the local domestic violence refuge Nova for Women and Children.
Mrs Kilmovitch, 61, was shot dead after answering her front door on Queen Street at Stockton around 8pm on June 9, 2021, in a "targeted" and "premeditated" murder masterminded by her former son-in-law, Stuart Campbell.
Mrs Klimovitch's infant grandchild was home at the time.
Campbell, who died in jail before facing trial, orchestrated the bloody plot and recruited Canberra man Jason Paul Hawkins as the gunman who shot Mrs Klimovitch and former Nomad bikie Stephen John Garland as the getaway driver.
Hawkins was sentenced to 32 years in jail, with a possibility of parole after 24 years in February for carrying out what Justice Peter Hamill described as a "premeditated assassination" and a "cold-blooded execution of a person with which he had no grievance".
The court heard Hawkins had long denied murdering Mrs Klimovitch, told a "fanciful" story during his NSW Supreme Court trial last year, and has not shown any remorse.
Mrs Klimovitch was remembered for her dedication to her family and as a respected local swimming teacher. During the sentencing proceedings earlier this year, her sister, speaking on behalf of their mother and siblings, told the court that her entire family was a victim of the "nonsensical murder of an innocent woman in her own home".
Details of the weekend's charity gala day are available via the NDSA website, ndsa.org.au.
