00:00Andrea Foster holds tight to memories of her daughter Michelle.
00:06I've lost my daughter. I've lost my soul.
00:11For Michelle's younger brother, musician Peter Spiniello,
00:14the songs he writes often reflect on the sister he lost.
00:20Michelle, like my sister, always gave the space for people to be themselves.
00:2636-year-old Michelle Foster was killed seven years ago
00:30in a random attack outside Colonnade's shopping centre in Norlunga Centre.
00:35The man who killed her was 20-year-old Jaden Lower,
00:38who was experiencing delusions caused by his schizophrenia.
00:42The system failed my sister in this particular case.
00:47The deputy coroner found a litany of missed opportunities
00:50in the lead-up to Michelle's death,
00:52including that Lower had been released from prison into homelessness
00:56after assaulting two people in a separate random attack,
00:59and that shortly after his release he told a clinician
01:02he wanted to kill someone, but was released from hospital the next day.
01:0641 days later he killed Michelle Foster
01:09and was found not guilty of murder due to mental incompetence.
01:13Andrea Foster says she can't understand
01:15how the coroner then found the mother of two's death was not preventable.
01:20It makes me angry, it makes me sad, because it was preventable.
01:26The family says the mental health system still needs fixing.
01:29The system is broken, and it doesn't matter how you're trying to fix it,
01:34it's not fixed fast enough, because people are still dying.
01:38This week legislation will be introduced into SA Parliament
01:41that if passed will allow the courts to better monitor violent,
01:45mentally ill offenders under the High Risk Offenders Act.
01:49It's a simple measure which would ensure that any other case like this
01:55does not have to bank on or rely on the fact that they may fall in or outside
02:01of a category of high risk offending.
02:03The government says the standard of continuity of care for offenders leaving prison
02:07has been improved since Michelle Foster's death.
02:10It says while it's not intending to make changes to the High Risk Offenders Act,
02:14it's developing reforms to the Mental Health Act to prevent similar incidents.
02:19I keep going because my daughter deserves better than that, you know what I mean?
02:25She should have been safe, you know, and she shouldn't have had to die
02:31because somebody else didn't do their job.
02:34A push for change to honour a life.
02:38It says the standard of property.
02:42For example, I'm facing the high risk.
02:46It says that it's a low risk.
02:48It affects the law.
02:50It's a low risk.
02:52It's a low risk.
02:54It's a low risk.
02:56It's a low risk.
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