Police offer $500,000 reward to solve stabbing murder of Sydney man
Moira Mitchell is haunted by the day her son was brutally murdered in the kitchen of his Sydney home more than 20 years ago.
Jonathan Mitchell was found with fatal stab wounds at the property on Bryson Street in Toongabbie at 12.15am on Sunday, December 7 in 2003.
The then-28-year-old had spent the previous day at Homebake music festival in the Royal Botanic Gardens, before he left the event early to meet his brother at the Pendle Inn in Pendle Hill.
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Moira Mitchell is haunted by the day her son was brutally murdered in the kitchen of his Sydney home. NSW Police
Police said Mitchell would have been home at 7pm that night.
A cricket bat, which police believe was used to assault Mitchell, was found in a gutter near the house.
Despite an extensive investigation into death under Strike Force Mundego, no one has been charged in relation to the murder.
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Moira Mitchell has welcomed a $500,000 reward for information. 9News
Police have announced a $500,000 reward for information to help police solve the case of who killed him.
"I will forever live with the fact that his face was the last face he saw, that terror was the last emotion he felt," Mrs Mitchell said today.
"You killed my son and you went home as if nothing had happened.
"As a mother, I'm broken in a way that only a mother who has lost a child knows.
"I will take this pain to my grave."
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Jonathan Mitchell was found dead in his home on Bryson Street in Toongabbie in 2003. NSW Police
Mrs Mitchell said her late father would have shared her desire for answers.
"My father would be turning in his grave at the moment," she said.
"He was a grand past master of the Freemasons and he believed in truth and justice
"I am my father's daughter and I won't give up until I find out who murdered my son."
The matter went to inquest in 2008, where the Coroner concluded Mitchell died by stab wounds inflicted by a person or people unknown to him.
The matter was referred to State Crime Command's Homicide Squad Unsolved Homicide Team in 2008.
A previous reward of $100,000 was announced in 2009.
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