A week before Jason Stokes, 31, left for Bali, his mother, Pat, asked him not to go on the Kingsley Football Club trip.She had a premontion about what was install for her son.
""I don't know why I asked him not to go. I really don't." she said.
"I said, 'Jason, do you really have to go?', she said, 'he simply replied with,'Mum, it's the safest place in the world!'."
"Jason had traveled all over the word and had visited Bali before. I had never asked him not to go anywhere before."
Jason Stokes, one of the sixteen victims from Western Australia, that lost his life in the tragic Bali bombings, which killed 202 people.
This news story is an excerpt from an article titled "We remember" in the Sunday Times, 5 October 2003, by Nick Taylor and Fiona Adolph.