NATIONAL NEWS - In an exclusive interview with Weekend Post, Jayde Panayiotou’s sister, Toni Inggs, tells Angela Daniels about Jayde’s greatest fear, her anger towards Christopher and the family’s Justice for Jayde campaign.
JAYDE Panayiotou’s greatest fear was having her home broken into or being taken by a stranger and hurt. And her husband Christopher knew this. His knowledge of her fears is what makes Jayde’s sister Toni Inggs so angry with the man alleged to have orchestrated her abduction and murder on April 21 this year.
It is also the driving force behind a campaign she and a friend have started to ensure that Jayde gets justice and people do not forget the wonderful woman she was – a woman who, Inggs says, “didn’t have a bad bone and was dynamite in a small package”.
“Her [Jayde’s] biggest fear was being taken by people and hurt or having someone break in, and he did that to her,” Inggs said in an interview earlier this week. She said she wished Panayiotou would have to face his greatest fear – a fear that he has spoken to her about, but which she did not want to divulge.
Inggs knows Panayiotou’s deepest fears as he is a man she adored, first as her sister’s boyfriend and later as her brotherin-law. “We knew him for 11 years. For 11 years he was lovable. He was part of our family.”
This, Inggs says, is also why, following her sister’s abduction and murder, she could not bring herself to consider that he might have been involved.
She vehemently defended her former brother-in-law when people started voicing their beliefs that he had not acted like a grieving husband.
“He didn’t show a lot of emotion but some people are like that,” Inggs said, adding that he had spoken to her about what people were saying about him on social media.
“We sat at the kitchen table at my parents’ house and he asked me if I had seen what people were saying about him. At first I felt more sorry for him than I even did for my own family. I was up all night with him, comforting him.”
Panayiotou was very aware of what was being said on Facebook and in retrospect, Inggs says, she could see his behaviour was not normal.
“He was on Facebook all the time when we were looking for Jayde but he never posted anything asking for people to help find her. Only after she was found did he change his profile picture to a photo of the two of them.”
It is also the driving force behind a campaign she and a friend have started to ensure that Jayde gets justice and people do not forget the wonderful woman she was – a woman who, Inggs says, “didn’t have a bad bone and was dynamite in a small package”.
“Her [Jayde’s] biggest fear was being taken by people and hurt or having someone break in, and he did that to her,” Inggs said in an interview earlier this week. She said she wished Panayiotou would have to face his greatest fear – a fear that he has spoken to her about, but which she did not want to divulge.
Inggs knows Panayiotou’s deepest fears as he is a man she adored, first as her sister’s boyfriend and later as her brotherin-law. “We knew him for 11 years. For 11 years he was lovable. He was part of our family.”
This, Inggs says, is also why, following her sister’s abduction and murder, she could not bring herself to consider that he might have been involved.
She vehemently defended her former brother-in-law when people started voicing their beliefs that he had not acted like a grieving husband.
“He didn’t show a lot of emotion but some people are like that,” Inggs said, adding that he had spoken to her about what people were saying about him on social media.
“We sat at the kitchen table at my parents’ house and he asked me if I had seen what people were saying about him. At first I felt more sorry for him than I even did for my own family. I was up all night with him, comforting him.”
Panayiotou was very aware of what was being said on Facebook and in retrospect, Inggs says, she could see his behaviour was not normal.
“He was on Facebook all the time when we were looking for Jayde but he never posted anything asking for people to help find her. Only after she was found did he change his profile picture to a photo of the two of them.”
