BC woman found dead in her Sydney, Australia apartment remembered as "kindest, sweetest" person

Friends and family of a B.C. woman are in mourning a week after she was found dead in her Sydney, Australia apartment.

Amber Haleta has spent days creating posters covered with pictures of 34-year-old Tatiana Dokhotaru, a friend she met in Surrey, B.C., more than a decade ago.

“(She was the) kindest, sweetest, most loving, (and) caring,” Haleta said.

“She was the first person to take me to the gym, to show me designer clothes. She was full of life.”

Dokhotaru moved to Australia in 2012. She married a man named Danny Zayat, and together they had a son. Haleta alleges Dokhotaru soon began to complain about domestic abuse and sent videos of her injuries.

“The reason she didn't call the police sooner is because she said, 'I can't take (my son) away from his (father). I can’t have my son not have a father, ” Haleta told Global News.

“And ultimately, she lost her life.”

Global News reporter Julia Foy reports.

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