Son contributed to mother's death while trying to dispel 'bad magic', coroner finds
November 29, 2021
A Melbourne man who wrote a will before taking his elderly and disabled mother onto Port Phillip Bay in a boat to rid her of "bad magic" contributed to her death, a coroner has found.
Adrian Meneveau, 56, and his mother Felicity Loveday, 83, set off from Oliver's Hill Boat Ramp in Frankston in December 2019.
Several days later, the empty boat was found drifting vertically in the bay.
The pair had embarked on the trip on the spiritual belief that salt water could dispel the "bad magic".
