Bondi Junction Westfield stabbing: Sky News reporter remembers murdered mum Ash Good

A Sky News reporter has fought back tears as he remembers a mum who was stabbed to death along with five other shoppers in a horrific and random attack.

Laura Jayes, 40, was visibly flustered beneath her living cross from Bondi Junction’s Westfield in Sydney’s east while reporting on the death of beloved osteopath Ash Good, 38.

Dr. Good was among the five women and one man fatally stabbed by a knifeman, 40, at the busy mall on Saturday afternoon in an attack that has shaken the nation.

Dr. Good and her nine-month-old baby girl, who was also stabbed, were both taken to hospital.

Tragically, Dr. Good in the hospital Saturday night, while her baby reportedly remains in critical condition after undergoing surgery.

Jayes said that while she did not know the other five victims, she did know Dr. Good, who was a ‘beautiful woman’ in the prime of her life.

Ash Good, 38, and her daughter were stabbed by the knifeman in Bondi Junction on Saturday. Dr. Good could not be saved while her baby remains in the hospital

“She has a beautiful circle of friends, she was an incredible athlete and she had the world at her feet,” an emotional Jayes told host Peter Stefanovic.

‘Her family are on their way and rushing here now, so many family and friends wanted to be at the hospital this afternoon, they had to take turns going in and out of the waiting room.

‘They both (Dr Good and her child) were operated on, her husband didn’t know if either of them had survived and now the worst imaginable news.

‘I just can’t really get my head around it. It’s just so cruel’.

Jayes, who is a mother of two, added that Dr. Good was an ‘incredibly smart’ woman whose life was ‘torn away’ in a matter of seconds.

Dr. Good and her baby were reportedly among the first victims of the attack, prompting others to immediately come to her aid.

The nightmare ended when a lone policewoman tracked down the attacker and shot him dead on the fifth level of the complex.

Dr. Good’s baby underwent surgery Saturday night and remains in the hospital

Dr. Good desperately threw her baby at a stranger in an attempt to save her, who then used clothes from a nearby shop to stop her bleeding.

Jayes struggled to understand the horror of a new mother handing over her newborn to someone she didn’t know.

“If you have a new baby… you’re with that baby all the time, and for her to… I can’t imagine her having to hand over the most precious thing in her life,” Jayes said.

‘It’s hard to know what to say in these circumstances because you want to convey it and do justice to her life and you want her baby to know one day what an incredible mother she was, but at the same time I don’t want betraying her family’s trust and privacy right now, but I can’t even imagine what they are going through.’

A bystander who grabbed Dr. Good’s babysitter, said he saw both the mother and the infant had been stabbed.

“The mother came over with the baby and threw it at me,” the man told Nine News.

“I was just helping by holding the baby… and trying to compress the baby.”

The man and his brother stayed with the mother and called emergency services.

‘(It was) very bad… a lot of blood on the floor… I hope the child is OK,’ said the other brother.

The attacker, 40, was shot dead by a lone policewoman on the fifth floor of the shopping complex

Dr. Good recently got married and Jayes said she was an ‘amazing athlete’ with lots of friends

Dr. Good was in the ‘prime of her life’ when she was fatally stabbed

Hours before the horror unfolded, Dr Good posted a photo on Instagram with his daughter in his arms.

The photo was compared to another photo from when she was pregnant.

“Only because I was walking by and happened to have the same 9 months out vs 9 months in etc etc,” the caption read.

Eight people remain in hospital after the attack.

NSW Police believe the man acted alone and was known to police.

There is no ongoing risk to society.