Frontman Paul Stanley reduced her family to tears when he told the crowd: "I think everybody knows about a girl called Shandee Blackburn. We lost her. We wish she could be here with us � so why don't we sing little something for her, all of us?"

Her mum, Vicki, told News.com.au: "I wasn't looking forward to the concert. It was just another one of those days where she should have been there."

Tickets for the show had been part of Shandee's birthday present. Vicki explained: "One of the detectives said that his interpretation of Shandee was that she would have told me to go out and have fun and enjoy the night."