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Julia Boika tributes following tragic drowning with Jake Jacobs
A personal trainer who drowned during a late night swim on the Gold Coast has been described by devastated friends as a “bright ray of sunshine”.
Julia Boika was seen entering the water at Broadbeach on Thursday night at about 9.20pm with a friend, British national Jake Jacobs.
Her lifeless body was pulled unresponsive from the water at Kurrawa about an hour after the swim while Mr Jacobs’s dead body was found a day later at Broadbeach.
Ms Boika, a 29-year-old Ukrainian national, worked as a trainer in Melbourne. It is here businesswoman…
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