MH17 MUM ‘WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, I CAN SEE THEIR SMILES’

Four years after losing all three of her children in a plane crash, Rin Norris draws strength from their memory

With their dancing eyes and cheeky grins, it’s still so hard to believe Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, who tragically became the faces of the MH17 disaster, are gone. All three would be in high school by now but instead, their lives, along with their grandfather’s, were cut short at just 12, 10 and eight respectively, after a Russian missile destroyed the civilian plane they were on as it flew over eastern Ukraine. The Malaysia Airlines jet fell from the skies killing 298 people – including 38 Australians – on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. No person or country has been charged for the July 17, 2014 atrocity, however international investigators have concluded that the attack was orchestrated by pro-Russian rebels. For four years, mum Rin Norris has…

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