The aunt of Zara Aleena has demanded an end to violence against women, saying they are no safer 12 months on from the law graduate's brutal murder.in east London, Farah Naz described her niece as"both the sweetest, and the strongest person, who wanted to change things... a fighter for justice.
Ms Naz told Sky News:"What we want to work towards is a society which is prepared, and willing to and able, to confront this issue of violence towards women and girls, so we can put a stop the fact that two women are being murdered every week. "And that's how we're approaching this. We're thinking of Zara in our hearts, but also all of the women who have been murdered."It was a quiet, sombre group of around 150 people who gathered to slowly and silently walk the roads she would have known so well, holding placards and T-shirts with pictures of her face on.
People spoke about the need to remember Zara, but also talked frequently about how it could have been"any woman" killed that night - as focus turned again and again to the wider crisis of male violence against women.