I Won't Hate My Son's Killer

Stacy’s eight month-old son was killed in his cot by a drunk driver. Five years on, she opens up about the little girl who helped her heal – and how her boy’s legacy lives on.

- Emma Levett

It was an everyday thing to do. Stacy Dunbar popped into another room, leaving her eight-week-old baby Eve alone for a second in her bouncer. But suddenly, realising where she’d left Eve, panic seized her.

‘I had this massive meltdown,’ Stacy, 36, remembers. ‘I just ran to her and grabbed her out of the bouncer, crying.’

The little room they were in might look innocent enough to anyone else. A pale yellow colour on the walls, a change table, a few toys and clothes strewn around.

But horrendously, it held the memory of where Stacy’s eight-month-old son Nate was horrifically killed in his cot when a drunk driver ploughed through the wall of their Perth home five years ago.

Back in January 2013, Stacy and her husband Justin were awoken at 2.30am by what sounded like an explosion in Nate’s nursery.

‘The whole room was floodlit and I suddenly realised there was a car, with its headlights still on, in the middle of my son’s bedroom,’ Stacy told New Idea at the time.

A Toyota HiLux had smashed through the wall, destroying the cot, and had come to rest on Nate’s tiny chest. He was killed instantly.