Family’s plea over killing Radical cancer therapy for children free in Victoria

THE family of Jason De Ieso, who was shot dead at his Adelaide business in 2012, have filmed an emotional plea to anyone with information about his murder.

South Australia Police have arrested five men and one woman over the 33-year-old’s execution-style murder, which is believed to be linked to a dispute between bikie gangs the Finks and the Hells Angels.

“It’s always with us, it never goes away and I don’t know why we have to go through this ... I just don’t understand why they did it,” Mr De Ieso’s mother Giovanna said in a video released by SA Police. A RADICAL cancer therapy helped save Melbourne schoolgirl Violet Uhi but she had to go overseas to get it.

Now other children and their families will be able to access the revolutionary chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in Melbourne for free, with two hospitals to offer the treatment.

The immunotherapy will be available at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Peter McCallum Cancer centre, the state and federal governments announced on Sunday.

The Uhi family travelled to the US last year after they found out eight-year-old Violet’s acute lymphoblastic leukaemia had come back for the second time.

Violet (pictured with father Sal), was just four when she was first diagnosed with the blood cancer, and despite rounds of chemotherapy the cancer returned.

But after moving to Seattle for four months last year to get the treatment her cancer is now in remission and Violet is back at school.

The program is jointly funded through the Victorian and federal governments and around 30 patients a year will get treatment.

Children and other young people from interstate with blood cancer will also be able to access the immunotherapy in Victoria, she said.