Luke Davies' final act of kindness for nervous flyer
The colleagues of slain Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies have shared the 29-year-old's final act of kindness for an elderly couple travelling overseas.
In one of the last flights before his untimely death, Davies was on a flight from Sydney to Singapore as an elderly woman boarded the plane with her dying husband who was dealing with dementia.
The senior couple were travelling to Switzerland so the man could pay one final visit to his son before succumbing to his illness.
The caring flight attendant spent the entire eight-and-a-half hour journey, including his break, with the man and his wife as they flew first-class.
"The wife had told him [her husband] had severe dementia, and she was really saddened by it because she kept saying he was the most beautiful husband and kindest man, and she was losing him to this cruel disease," Qantas colleague Brooke Walters told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"She was getting exhausted because every 30 seconds he was losing his memory, like a goldfish, and Luke took it upon himself to care for them constantly."
Walters shared how her friend and colleague went above and beyond to care for the elderly man, recalling how he tucked the man into his bed, reassured him amid his confusion and consoled his wife, who was at times upset.
"Luke had been told they booked the flight a year and a half ago, but the husband had deteriorated in the last three months really badly, so it was going to be their last trip to see their son, and Luke wanted it to be as comfortable as possible," she said.
Ms Walters added that Mr Davies had a love of travelling and was a joy to be around.
Luke and his partner Jesse Davies' bodies were found in southern New South Wales on Tuesday, after Constable Beaumont Lamarre-Condon turned himself in over the disappearance of the two men, and has since been charged with two counts of murder.
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