Hundreds gather to remember Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson at twilight vigil

The family of murdered Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson, whose charred body was found in her backyard last week, has remembered her as a “strong fierce woman” who thought that being a mother was the best job in the world.

Hundreds of mourners gathered for a candlelit vigil to honour the 27-year-old mother-of-three on the Gold Coast on Monday evening.

An emotional local State Member of Parliament Sam O’Connor, who helped organise the vigil, read a statement on behalf of the family, describing Ms Wilkinson as someone who would help others regardless of events in her own life.