Caron Lindsay

Lib Dems mark Sabina Nessa vigil

By | Sat 25th September 2021 - 12:30 pm

Last night a vigil was held in Lewisham for Sabina Nessa, the young teacher murdered as she took a short walk at around 8:30 on Friday 17th September to meet a friend.

Liberal Democrat Councillor Rabina Khan was there and posted the heartbreaking speech from Sabina’s sister, who showed incredible courage in speaking.

Former leader Jo Swinson, who lives in that part of London, said:

Women and Equalities spokesperson Wera Hobhouse:

Earlier in the day, Rabina had been on the Today programme, talking to Nick Robinson about the fact that when women of colour go missing or worse, their stories attract much less attention than when white, middle class women go missing.

Earlier Ed Davey had called for more action to tackle violence against women and girls.

And Caroline Pidgeon had written to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick to ask her to ensure that the appalling scenes at the Sarah Everard vigil in March were not repeated.

And, last night, she said:

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

Read more by or more about , , , or .
This entry was posted in Op-eds.
Advert

One Comment

Post a Comment

Lib Dem Voice welcomes comments from everyone but we ask you to be polite, to be on topic and to be who you say you are. You can read our comments policy in full here. Please respect it and all readers of the site.

This post has pre moderation enabled, please be patient whilst waiting for it to be manually reviewed. Liberal Democrat Voice is made up of volunteers who keep the site running in their free time.

To have your photo next to your comment please signup your email address with Gravatar.

Your email is never published. Required fields are marked *

*
*
Please complete the name of this site, Liberal Democrat ...?

Advert

Recent Comments

  • Jason Connor
    I agree Graham. I really don't understand this emphasis on appealing to such a narrow voter base. It's almost as if there's a drive to let other opposition part...
  • Matthew Harris
    @AndyDaer Out of interest, I asked ChatGPT for a fact check of your last comment: There are legitimate arguments here, but also some serious factual distorti...
  • Jana
    Is it not time for the Liberal Democrats to back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement? Ordinary Israeli voters need to realise that voting for extrem...
  • Graham Jeffs
    Simon Robinson "For that reason I’d expect the national party to want to focus a London campaign on keeping those seats". Well, one way of doing that would...
  • Adam
    The language spoken in southern Scotland was old Welsh - not a variety of Gaelic, but rather a form of Brythonic. Gaelic was brought to Scotland from what is no...