A MOTHER who lost her son, father and brother in the Tunisian beach massacre insists her family has been “destroyed” as seven evil jihadists were jailed for life.
Suzanne Richards, 49, said the sentencing of the wicked terrorists yesterday would never “compensate her loss” four years after the horrific Sousse attack.
The travel lecturer lost her beloved son Joel, 19, her brother Adrian Evans, 44, and her father Charles ‘Patrick’ Evans, 78, in the atrocity.
Her younger son Owen, who is aged 19, survived the terrifying assault despite being shot in the shoulder by one of the brainwashed militants.
Earlier today seven militants were caged for life in Tunisia for shooting rampages at a museum and at the beach resort which killed 60 people in 2015.
Family members of victims from France and Belgium were able to watch justice being carried out via a live video feed.
However, British relatives, including Suzanne, were not given the opportunity to watch the hearing on Friday.
The grief never goes away. It lives with you, it becomes part of your life
A distraught Suzanne told the Mail Online: “Nothing will compensate our loss. I just hope lessons will have been learned from this atrocity.
“So many people have been affected by this and so many families have been destroyed.
“Nothing will ever put it right. We still struggle. The grief never goes away. It lives with you, it becomes part of your life, you miss them every day.”
The 49-year-old insisted that “time doesn’t heal” before adding that she was “extremely disappointed” that she and other Brits were not offered the chance to watch the jailing of the killer jihadists.
Suzanne said the UK government has given her “very little information” about the court proceeding while admitting she does not know why Brits were not allowed to watch justice being handed out.
Since the tragedy, the travel lecturer has set up a charity called Smile for Joel in honour of her slain family members.
The charity has supported 200 families impacted by homicide in England and Wales since 2017 – when it was given official status.
Suzanne also hopes to make travelling abroad safer for British holidaymakers by working with the tourism industry.
She said: “It was clear from the UK inquest that changes need to be made to how holidays are booked.”
Four of the jihadists were sentenced to life in prison for the massacre at the former Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse where 38 people were slain in the popular resort, including 30 Britons.
Three militants were handed life sentences for homicide for an earlier attack in March 2015, where two gunmen killed 21 foreign tourists and a Tunisian security guard at the capital’s Bardo museum, reports France 24.
FAMILIES RIPPED APART
Five Japanese nationals as well as visitors from Italy, Poland and Spain were among the dead in the noon assault on Bardo, inside the heavily guarded parliament compound in central Tunis.
Dozens of defendants attended two separate trials over the closely linked rampages, but 27 were acquitted.
Prosecution spokesman Sofiene Sliti said that the remainder were sentenced to between six and 16 years.
Some of the defendants face potential capital punishment for charges of premeditated murder, threatening state security and belonging to a group with extremist links.
The BBC reports that the man believed to be behind both atrocities, Chamseddine al-Sandi, is still on the run.
BRAINWASHED KILLERS
There are unconfirmed reports that he may have died in Libya two years ago during a US air strike.
Defence lawyer Imen Truqui gave her condolences to families of those killed, and insisted the trial was held in a democratic atmosphere, with all parties granted the right to defend themselves.
On June 26, 2015, in the coastal city of Sousse, attacker Seifeddine Rezgui walked onto the beach of the then Imperial Hotel and used an assault rifle to shoot at tourists in lounge chairs, then continued onto the hotel pool before throwing a grenade into the hotel.
Rezgui, a Tunisian student who trained with Libyan militants, was killed about 15 minutes later by police.
WOUNDS WHICH WILL NEVER HEAL
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
The terrorist had taken a drug to suppress his emotions.
Thousands of British tourists were evacuated from Tunisia in the wake of the atrocity.
In addition to the massacre at the beach resort, and attack at the museum, Tunisia suffered another major attack in 2015.
Twelve perished in the centre of Tunis on a bus carrying presidential guards.
ISIS also claimed responsibility for the museum and bus attacks, which, along with the attack at the Imperial Hotel, devastated the country’s tourism sector as travel agencies pulled out and governments issued travel warnings.
Tourism has since partially bounced back after Tunisia’s government implemented a series of measures aimed at securing popular destinations in the country.
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