YARRAVILLE residents are among hundreds who have posted heartfelt condolences on Cain Anthony Aguiar’s Facebook page, after the 25-year-old dual Canadian and Australian citizen died last week.

Mr Aguiar died on 14 July after being bashed outside Yarraville’s Blarney Stone Hotel the week before.

The Kelowna man, who had been in Australia less than a month, was believed to have been drinking alone at the Blarney Stone Hotel on Thursday 9 July when he allegedly became involved in an altercation with a group of men as he left shortly before midnight.

He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital with serious head injuries and was later placed on life support after his condition deteriorated significantly.

His death sparked an outpouring of grief on a Facebook page his sister Tonya set up in the days after the attack, for family and friends to send their recovery wishes.

Ms Aguiar renamed the page Rest in Peace Cain Anthony Aguiar shortly after his death. Members were joining the Group in droves last Thursday morning, with many Yarraville residents offering their condolences.

Yarraville resident Christopher Hawkes, who lives near the Blarney Stone Hotel, said he too had been “once or twice drunk there alone like you”. “It’s a lovely area but sometimes a bit of bad luck and a foreign accent is all it takes. Will think of you and your family when I next walk by. My deepest sympathy for you and your loved ones,” he wrote.

Maribyrnong City Council also posted a message on the Facebook page.

Mayor Michael Clarke said the council’s thoughts and prayers were with the Aguiar family. “As a parent, the death of a child is the most profound nightmare one can possibly imagine, and words could never do justice to the sense of loss his loved ones must be experiencing and will continue to experience as they try to adapt to their situation.

“This type of violence is simply not welcome in our City. Council is abhorred that such an act has occurred in Yarraville, a family-oriented, peaceful suburb with a strong sense of community connectedness.”