Mourners farewell Aussie killed in Papua

Drew Grant's suspected murderers were arrested in Papua on Tuesday as the "cheeky"
young dad was farewelled at a funeral service in Melbourne.

Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the 29-year-old Australian mining worker
who was shot dead in the Indonesian province of Papua while on his way to play golf
on July 11.
Papua police chief Bagus Ekodanto said 17 men were detained on Monday over a series
of attacks.
"We are still questioning (the suspects) intensively to determine their role in the
three shooting incidents," he said.
Two of Mr Grant's closest friends spoke on behalf of his family at Tuesday's
funeral, telling mourners tales of a driven, yet selfless "natural romantic",
described by his widow Lauren as "the absolute love of my life."
"Drew, you are my rock. It's not exaggerating to say that you are my everything,"
she said through the friends.
Lauren attended the service at St Andrew's Anglican Church in Brighton, clutching
the pair's 11-week-old daughter, Ella, who was dressed in baby pink.
Her father's coffin was covered in a spray of tulips, lilies and roses.
Alex Lloyd's Amazing and One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men played during
the service as photos of Mr Grant with his family and friends were shown.
After meeting while working at a cinema at Southland Shopping Centre, Mr Grant
proposed at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower. The couple married in 2007 when their
engagement party turned into a wedding.
They had been living in Papua where Mr Grant worked for US mining company Freeport
McMoRan, but returned to Melbourne for Ella's birth 11 weeks ago.
Mr Grant was back in Papua and his wife and daughter were due to join him there this
week.
The church was told Mr Grant was a glass half full kind of person who was renowned
for winding people up.
He was house captain and a school prefect, and was involved with Mentone Life Saving
Club.
He was also a role model for younger brother Nick. During their childhood,
everything Mr Grant loved, his brother did too.
"I always thought if I could grow up to be half the man Drew was then I would be
happy," Nick said through Mr Grant's friend.
"We will never be able to make any sense of what happened in West Papua."
Since Arizona-based Freeport opened its operations there in the 1970s, it has been
targeted with arson, roadside bombs and blockades.
An Indonesian security guard was killed in an ambush near Freeport's Grasberg mine,
a day after the attack on Mr Grant's car.
A policeman was later found dead in a ravine after fleeing the ambush.
At least 12 others, most of them police, were wounded in five days of attacks
starting on July 11 along a road between the mine and the town of Timika.
It remains unclear who was behind the ambushes.