“And lastly please advocate for them to be named STEVEN’S LAW. We cannot let the anguish that we feel,be wasted as frivolously as was my son.”

Tougher had been in the job for about a year and married his wife Madison five weeks before his death.

The pair were due to welcome their second child in a few weeks.

The fatal stabbing comes four years after NSW Ambulance introduced a body-worn camera pilot in Sydney’s Eveleigh,Liverpool and Hamilton stations to help keep paramedics safer on the job.

In 2019,there were more than 400 reported incidents of occupational violence against paramedics. Many of those incidents included kicking,pushing and spitting,according to NSW Ambulance’s It’s Never OK campaign.

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