“We don’t have a family anymore.”
The surf world was rocked to its core, last
spring, when news came out that two Australian brothers, Callum and
Jake Robinson, and their American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad, had
been murdered while on a Baja California surf trip. So many travel
south, to Mexico’s northernmost peninsula, for warmer waves and
better food making the brutal killing that much more visceral.
After having gone missing, Mexican authorities found the burnt
pick-up the three had been driving before discovering their bodies
pitched into a well at a remote campsite. Four Mexican nationals
were soon arrested, the motive described as “a robbery gone
wrong.”
Now, for the first time, the Robinson parents are speaking out
about the anguish, the torture of losing it all. Martin and Debra
sat down for an interview with
9News, Debra saying, “We had these dreams, as every
parents do, for their children.”
“And I just wanted them to have a good life. Now, they’re not
going to happen and we have to readjust to that, that fact we don’t
have a family anymore,” Martin added, heartbreakingly
Callum, 33, and Jake, 30, were both ambitious, talented and
successful. Callum a member of Australia’s national
lacrosse team, Jake set to start working in a hospital in Geelong.
Through the tragedy, hundreds of people donated money to the
family, some $500,000 USD raised. The parents have set up a charity
to be used for people wanting to go into sport or medicine.
“Something that we learnt about our children which has become
more apparent is that they really encouraged other people, so we
are hoping that the money will be used to encourage other people to
pursue what they need to,” Marin closing at the end.
Impossible to imagine this pain.
