00:00A family determined to write the final chapter of an unimaginable tragedy.
00:07The story so far is the act, chapter 2 is the verdict and chapter 3 is going to be the
00:15fight for change.
00:16Paramedic Stephen Toger was stabbed more than 50 times by Jordan Finian-Ganafo outside a
00:22McDonalds in Campbelltown while he was on a break.
00:25The accused was found not criminally responsible for his murder due to a mental health impairment.
00:31Today Stephen's loved ones packed into a courtroom hoping to be heard.
00:36What everyone said here today is something he thinks about for the rest of his life.
00:40Stephen's mother Jill Toger looked right at her son's killer saying how dare you do that
00:45to my beautiful son.
00:46You don't have a knife now, I hope you rot in hell.
00:50The 29 year old had just married the love of his life.
00:53His widow giving birth to his daughter only a month after his death.
00:58All in the space of three months I received a marriage certificate, a death certificate
01:03and a birth certificate at the age of 25.
01:07The attack has also rocked the state's ambulance service with many of his colleagues since
01:12deemed psychologically unfit to ever return to work.
01:16The perspective of the workforce has changed since Stephen's death from feeling that the
01:21blue uniform is a form of protection to this being a liability to personal safety.
01:27The judge ordered Finian Gnafo to remain in custody as a forensic patient under the Mental
01:32Health Tribunal with his potential release back into the community to be reviewed every
01:38six months.
01:39For now the family's focus turns to fixing the system they say is broken.
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