Nearly a year after the deaths of the Dickason sisters in New Zealand, their loved ones in SA are still shattered by their loss

It would be hard to find a more picturesque spot. With its rosebushes, trees full of birdsong and sweeping views of majestic snow-capped mountains, the garden on the outskirts of Timaru in New Zealand is spectacular.

But it’s also home to a multitude of sorrows. Next to a pink flowering shrub and a tree in the memorial garden at Salisbury Park Crematorium is a plaque.

“Gone too soon,” reads the message inscribed on it, which is accompanied by a picture of three young girls on a slide.