Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old teacher from south London, is believed to have been murdered on the five-minute walk from her house to a pub, police say
, sparking renewed outcry about the UK's epidemic of violence against women and girls.
London's Metropolitan Police said in a Thursday statement that Nessa had left her home in the borough of Greenwich just before 8:30 p.m. on Friday September 17. Detectives believe that she was walking through Cator Park towards a bar in Pegler Square, where she had planned to meet a friend.She is thought to have been murdered on her journey through the park, the Met statement said, with her body found the following afternoon, close to a nearby community center.
How 'missing White woman syndrome' has real life implications 02:56On Thursday, Greenwich Council told CNN that they had handed out 200 personal alarms to women and vulnerable residents in the borough this week"following the horrific murder of Sabina Nessa.
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