He is tanned and tight, a champion kickboxer and on Tuesday night Smail Ayad used his powerful body and delusional mind to allegedly stab to death Mia Ayliffe-Chung at a backpacker’s hostel in North Queensland.
In photographs the 29-year-old Frenchman looks confident, smooth and in control. Photographs can be so deceptive. It’s not his toned body we should be wary of, it’s his mind.
Ayad was said to be "obsessed" with Mia, reportedly going as far as to tell the other residents of the backpacker hostel that he and the beautiful, young British backpacker were married.
Mia had only arrived at the hostel eight days before and Ayad had become instantly "infatuated". The Townsville Bulletin reports he had been "fawning" over her, telling other backpackers constantly they were in love.
Photographs of her modelling were said to have sent him over the edge. He also discovered that Mia did not "share his feelings". He reportedly changed "in an instant".
Described as a "good person" by the manager of the North Queensland hostel he nevertheless turned into a man full of rage with chilling 'rightful' vengeance on his mind. He snapped - a familiar story for so many women who are victims of violence. Minutes before the alleged murder he posted a message on his Facebook page:
"I'm a victim, I feel I'm going to die soon, whoever you are who like me please follow me, I love everyone," Ayad wrote.
It's impossible to be sympathetic. It's impossible to understand a man who blames others for such savage actions. The real victim was a young, vivacious woman who was travelling around Australia on the holiday of a lifetime. Someone's beautiful daughter on the other side of the world making new friends, working a bit, laughing, dancing, telling her mum just hours before her murder, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine".
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Real love has zero to do with this horrible tragedy. If you truly love someone you would cross deserts, climb mountains, swim oceans to be with them, and, as gut-wrenchingly painful as it can be, let them go if that is what they want.
It isn't the word 'love' that is the problem. It is the general misunderstanding of the term. Love is not just feelings - feelings pass. Love is a commitment to the wellbeing and happiness of the loved one, regardless of your own feelings, and even if it means you must accept that their happiness comes from being in a relationship with someone other than you. There needs to be a re-education for everyone about what it is. Otherwise a loved one can be tossed aside just as easily as that handbag you 'love' when something better comes along.
I think also it needs to be remembered that love should be a mutual feeling if one harbours any expectations of reciprocity from the object of your desires. And that the other person is not an extension of you nor a possession to be controlled & manipulated... so sorry for this latest victim'so family.