A brother speaks of his family’s shock and grief as police arrest a man over the death of a South Morang woman.

“My dad came here last night, the lights were on and he knocked on the door, no one answered, he came home,” Azzopardi said.

When her sister didn’t answer phone calls or check messages, Azzopardi said she returned home to members of her family.

“It feels like a bad dream; “It doesn’t feel real,” he said.

“You think it’s not going to happen to you, your sister, your brother, whatever, but yeah, I’m not going to see my sister again.”

Azzopardi said her sister had been a kind soul and a great listener who would help anyone.

“She didn’t see the bad in people, she always saw the good,” he said.

They last saw each other at Azzopardi’s son’s 15th birthday party, when they went karting.

“It was her idea, not mine, and that’s the last time I saw her,” he said.

“In retrospect, if you knew it was the last time, you would be doing more, you would ask more, you would take more photographs. “It’s just horrible, it’s very surreal.”

Azzopardi said she was trying to stay strong for her family and had not yet absorbed the reality of her sister’s death.

Acting Senior Sergeant Shaun O’Connell, homicide squad detective, said police would be at the scene well into the night.

“Any scene we go to where there is a deceased person takes a toll on emergency services,” he said.

“In relation to the officers who were upset, we will provide them with our support.”