Adrian Ernest Bayley

On 22 September 2012 Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, raped and murdered 29-year-old, Jill Meagher, at Brunswick in Melbourne.

Ms Meagher, who was originally from Drogheda, County Louth, moved to Australia from Ireland in 2009 with her husband, Thomas.

She worked for ABC radio but went missing during a night out with colleagues.

Her body was discovered six days later buried on the outskirts of the city.

The BBC's correspondent in Sydney, Phil Mercer, said there had been a huge turnout for Ms Meagher's memorial rally and he had never seen "public revulsion on that scale".

"A few weeks after Jill Meagher was murdered a crowd of about 30,000 people marched through the inner city district of Brunswick, in Melbourne, to remember Jill Meagher and also to highlight the broader concerns about violence against women," he said.

"Certainly, this case did touch a very raw nerve in the city of Melbourne."

In June 2013 Bayley, who had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum jail term of 35 years.

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