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My brother lost at sea: Michael Hibberd’s painful story – The Age
Michael Hibberd has opened up about the loss of his brother Geoff, who disappeared during a fishing trip. The Melbourne defender says he’s dealt with the worst of the grief, though “you have your good days and your bad days”.
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Michael Hibberd reckoned his elder brother Geoff was the kind of character who usually extricated himself from vexed situations.
So when Michael Hibberd’s sister Carly called the Demon defender about 11pm on Sunday, April 5, to say that Geoff and a friend, Jason De Silva, had gone missing after leaving Flinders Pier before 6am on a fishing trip, the family still held hope that the affable Geoff, a plasterer from Balnarring, would be okay.
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