Sabina Nessa: London murder reignites fears over women’s safety
Al Jazeera
Campaigners say authorities must tackle ‘root causes of male violence against women’ in wake of 28-year-old teacher’s killing.
London, United Kingdom – The murder of 28-year-old Sabina Nessa in a London park has reignited a national conversation in over women’s safety, six months after the death of Sarah Everard topped the United Kingdom’s political agenda.
Nessa, a primary school teacher, was killed a week ago on the evening of Friday, September 17 while walking in Cator Park in Kidbrooke, an area in the capital’s southeastern Borough of Greenwich.
It is understood that she was on her way to meet a friend at a bar less than a 10-minute walk away from her home on Astell Road when she was attacked at about 8:30pm, according to detectives with London’s Metropolitan Police Service (Met).