John Herron to run for Justice party in Victoria state election to ‘fight for’ daughter killed in Royal Park in 2019
by Adeshola Ore from World news | The Guardian on (#64T06)
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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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