Toutai Kefu: Wallabies nice’s spouse re-lives the horrific second she thought her husband and son have been going to die throughout brutal residence invasion

Rachel Kefu is stricken by vivid photos of her Wallabies star husband Toutai and her son bleeding after youngsters armed with a cane-cutting sickle broke into their residence.

August 16 had been a special occasion for her household: in 2003 Toutai Kefu performed his sixtieth rugby union Take a look at match for Australia and their daughter Madison was born.

However 18 years later it was the date of a real-life nightmare, Mrs Kefu stated.

She was talking on Monday throughout sentencing proceedings within the Brisbane Supreme Courtroom for 2 boys, who can’t be named as they have been 15 on the time they broke into the Kefu household residence within the inner-Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo in 2021.

They’ve pleaded responsible to costs together with deliberately inflicting grievous bodily hurt referring to the invasion of the Kefus’ residence and the theft of a automobile from one other property on the identical morning.

Wallabies legend Toutai Kefu and his spouse Rachel (pictured) have been victims of a terrifying residence invasion that nearly left their household for useless in August 2021

Rachel Kefu (pictured with husband Toutai and their youngsters) stated she has been in a relentless state of hypervigilance because the assault and has fixed flashbacks to the occasion

Mrs Kefu woke about 3am to the sound of automobile doorways earlier than discovering two youngsters inside the house.

The boys – one armed with a big cane-cutting sickle – demanded automobile keys, telling Mrs Kefu to ‘f**king shut up’ and threatening to kill her, the court docket was informed.

Woken by his spouse’s screams Kefu informed the teenagers to go away, with the couple gesturing to automobile keys in a bowl.

However as an alternative of taking the chance to go away with out violence, one teen struck Mrs Kefu with the sickle.

Throughout the wrestle that adopted Kefu was stabbed within the torso, their son Joshua was reduce as he tried to intervene and daughter Madison was additionally injured.

A neighbour who got here to the household’s assist, Ben Cannon, tackled one teen, pinning him down till police arrived.

Mrs Kefu stated she has been in a relentless state of hypervigilance because the assault, feels paralysed by concern and infrequently sits at her bed room window for hours at evening.

‘I always expertise flashbacks of the crime and I’m nonetheless stricken by the graphic recollections of my household combating for lives, to outlive, that evening,’ she informed the court docket.

Rachel Kefu thought on the time that her son and husband have been fatally injured

Kefu performed 60 video games for the Wallabies and coached Tonga to the 2019 World Cup

Mrs Kefu stated vivid psychological photos from the evening proceed to replay in her thoughts.

For a second throughout the assault she thought her son and husband have been fatally injured, she stated.

Joshua had deep cuts over his again and arms and blood throughout him, whereas Toutai Kefu had his complete hand inside his abdomen attempting to cease himself bleeding out, she stated.

‘I can not erase these photos … it was so traumatic and continues to really feel painfully uncooked.’

Mrs Kefu sustained accidents to her dominant hand that aren’t anticipated to totally heal.

‘The knife wound was executed with such drive that it chipped the bone and a number of other of the nerves, tendons, ligaments and muscle groups in my left forearm,’ she stated.

Police look at the scene of the house invasion which left the Kefus and their road in a state of deep shock

Calling for the utmost sentence to be handed down, she stated the teenagers are sufficiently old to know the distinction between proper and incorrect.

‘I imagine they should be held accountable for his or her actions as actions have very actual penalties,’ she stated.

Two different boys, aged 15 and 13, who have been within the automobile exterior the Kefus’ residence and who additionally took half within the earlier theft, have already been sentenced within the Brisbane Childrens Courtroom.

They have been sentenced to two-and-a-half years’ detention and ordered to serve 50 per cent of that.

The sentencing of the older boys is because of proceed on Tuesday earlier than Justice Peter Davis.