Masa Vukotic's family and friends bid farewell at Melbourne funeral
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Version 0 of 1. Family and friends have bidden farewell to Masa Vukotic, the 17-year-old stabbed to death in a Melbourne park last week. Wearing touches of her favourite colour, pink, hundreds packed Springvale botanical cemetery’s Boyd chapel and more spilled outside. Masa was fatally stabbed in an apparently random attack at a Doncaster park last Tuesday. Friends giggled as her family remembered the “selfie princess” with a love of fashion, costumes, reading and travel. “She was a beautiful person on the inside and also on the outside. I am honoured to be her little sister,” her younger sibling Nadja said. Her brother, Petar, led the way into the chapel, carrying a cross and a photograph of his sister. Her white coffin, adorned with pink flowers, followed. Masa’s father, Slavoljub, supported his wife, Natasa, as they entered the church and clutched her hand as she spoke of the “unconditional love” they had for her. A schoolfriend, Maddie Stone, said Masa had been ambitious and driven and had a “smile like 100 fireworks lighting up the sky”. Classmates from Canterbury girls secondary college formed a guard of honour as Masa’s coffin was carried out of the chapel for a public burial service. Another gathering will be held at the Queen Victoria Gardens on Saturday. |