Ashley Gordon's loved ones were meant to meet him for lunch one summer's day, but instead ended up saying goodbye to him in a morgue.

When his sisters, niece and other family members set off from regional Victoria to Melbourne on January 13, 2024, they had no idea the beloved 33-year-old GP was already dead.

He had been stabbed by a 16-year-old boy in Doncaster, in Melbourne's east, in a knife attack that pierced his heart.

"You took my brother Ashley's life and in doing so shattered ours," Ashley's sister Tammy Gordon told the Supreme Court today.

"I don't know how you live with yourself, knowing you have taken a life so viciously."

Victim impact statements from members of the Gordon family described the pain of an empty chair at family celebrations and loved ones struggling to

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