PARENTS' PROMISE: ‘WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP CATFISHING'

TERESA AND MARK ARE ON A MISSION TO CRIMINALISE THE EVIL ACT THAT TOOK RENAE’S LIFE

- Megan Rowe

When Teresa Marsden thinks back on her daughter Renae’s final days, she recalls a happy, bubbly and loving young woman who was making wedding plans with the man of her dreams.

Renae was looking forward to her upcoming 21st birthday celebrations, and was also enquiring about a honeymoon in Greece with the man she had been dating for 18 months, Brayden Spiteri.

Although the pair had never met because Brayden was supposedly in Goulburn Correctional Centre after he was implicated in a motorbike accident, they had exchanged 11,000 messages.

It wasn’t until Renae ended her own life at a notorious Sydney suicide spot on August 5, 2013 that Teresa discovered Brayden didn’t exist.

Teresa, 50, and her husband, Mark, 61, were horrified when they learnt Renae’s best friend, Camila Zeidan, had created a fake profile for Brayden and catfished their daughter.