I Was Moved To Tears

Australian favourite Melissa Doyle reveals the stories that have left a lasting effect.

- Jenny Brown

Tender-hearted Melissa Doyle is sometimes moved to tears by the stories she covers for top-rating public affairs program Sunday Night. Occasionally, try as she might, when the emotion gets too much she simply has to take a moment to step away and clear her head.

Talking recently to devastated mother Tonya Dwyer – whose teen daughter Brittney callously killed her own granddad for his $100,000 life savings hidden in the garden shed – was a case in point.

Another was her close encounter with courageous Brenda Lin, sole survivor of her uncle’s vicious murder of her entire family – her mother, father, two brothers and an aunt – at their Sydney home.