'THE PROMISE I MADE TO MUM'

After tragedy, Ashton and Grant are closer than ever

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When Ashton Kline was just 15, he and his younger brother Grant Monks experienced an unimaginable tragedy when their mother Viola was brutally murdered by their father.

Farewelling his beloved mum, who had left her violent husband just a few months before, Ashton made an emotional pledge to always look after his six-year-old brother.

Grant has nephrotic syndrome, which scars the kidneys and means he needs lifesaving dialysis three times a week. At the time of her death in 2000, Viola was set to donate one of her kidneys to Grant.