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Adelaide Lang

Teach sons respect, warns mother of murdered woman

Peta and Jamie James have pleaded for cultural change to prevent more women being killed. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

The parents of a young sports coach bludgeoned to death by her ex-boyfriend have delivered an impassioned warning about the dangers of failing to teach men to respect women.

Water polo coach Lilie James was killed when her ex-boyfriend Paul Thijssen bashed her over the head with a hammer at least 25 times in a bathroom at St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney on October 25, 2023.

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