By Ava Benny-Morrison
The once dimly-lit path in Parramatta Park is a place of sorrow and remembrance for Prabha Kumar's family.
On one hand, the shiny new plaque on a park chair reminds them of the community's effort to honour Ms Kumar's memory.
Family at the memorial service.Credit: Michele Mossop
But on the other, it is the scene of the senseless murder that claimed the mother-of-one's life.
Eight months after Ms Kumar, 41, was stabbed in the throat on her way home from work, many of her family members have travelled to Sydney to unveil a memorial in her honour.
Prabha Kumar's mother is comforted.Credit: Michele Mossop
On Sunday afternoon, Ms Kumar's husband, mother, father, daughter, brothers and sisters cried as they remembered Ms Kumar.
"She was a really quiet girl," brother Shankar Shetty said.
"She would never harm anybody. Even if you shout at her, yell at her, all she would do is well some tears in her eyes.
"She would never, ever hurt anybody. So that what makes it so difficult to understand why would anybody in this world like to hurt her.
Murder victim Prabha Kumar.Credit: Facebook
"That's what we want to know."
As her family lifted a white sheet off the park chair revealing Ms Kumar's memorial plaque, her mother became inconsolable and had to be supported by a relative.
The path through the park, on which Ms Kumar would often walk home to her house in Westmead, has been named Prabha's Walk.
Ms Kumar moved to Australia up to three years ago to work for IT firm Mindtree.
She was making plans with her husband for him and their 11-year-old daughter to join her in Australia.
Mr Kumar said he missed his wife terribly.
"She was very caring," he said
"She wanted us to be happy all the time. She came here for us, me and Meghana.
"She sacrificed a lot of things."
Mr Kumar was on the phone to his wife as she walked home from the train station about 9.30pm on March 7 and heard her being confronted and attacked.
He rushed to the airport and travelled to Australia, where he learned his wife had died.
Detectives are still hunting for Ms Kumar's killer but ruled out robbery, sexual assault and race hate as motives early in the investigation.
Police are expected to speak at length with Ms Kumar's family during their stay in Australia.
Ms Kumar's father, Mahabala Shetty, said his daughter came to Australia initially for six months but stayed for three years.
"He feels he just wants to know who did it and why they did it," his son, Shankar Shetty, said on his behalf.
Mr Shetty said his sister's journey in this country was cut tragically short.
"No mother or father should go through what they have been through," he said.
"No child should go through what Meghana has gone through."