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Farah Naz, Zara Aleena's aunt, has said that their family had lost their "songbird". She was speaking to reporters after Jordan McSweeney was sentenced to a minimum of 38 years in prison for Ms ...
A woman who was killed in a street attack in east London believed every woman should be able to walk home, her family have said. Zara Aleena was on Cranbrook Road in Ilford - 10 minutes from her ...
The family of Zara Aleena have described living in a “horror film” after her brutal murder, but said her death had “made campaigners out of all of us”. Law graduate Ms Aleena, ...
As part of the ongoing inquest into her death this week, the family of Zara Aleena – who was murdered in 2022 while walking home from a night out – have shared an emotional statement about the ...
The family of Zara Aleena have hit out at a move to reduce her killer's sentence, saying they are "extremely disappointed". Jordan McSweeney, who stalked and murdered Zara, won a Court of Appeal ...
Zara Aleena's family have accused probation officers of having "blood on their hands" as her killer was released from prison just days before murdering her. Jordan McSweeney, 29, was handed a life ...
The family of murdered Zara Aleena today branded her 'repugnant' killer Jordan McSweeney's slashed prison sentence as 'disheartening' to women. Aspiring lawyer Ms Aleena, 35, was murdered on June ...
The family of Zara Aleena have released some photographs of her, via the Metropolitan Police. After the sentencing, her aunt Farah Naz told the PA News agency the family "don't want her last hours ...
Flowers left after a vigil in 2022 in Ilford, east London, for murdered law graduate Zara Aleena (Beresford Hodge/PA) After meeting with the family of Ms Aleena, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab ...
We are a tight-knit, interdependent family, we live in each other’s shoes. We were all close to Zara. Zara Aleena was the heart of the family. She was a daughter to us all. She was our Zara.