Bereaved mum: We can’t accept deaths

THE mother of tragic student Libby Squire has said “we can’t accept our girls being murdered on the streets” following the death of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.

Lisa Squire, 51, told The Sun that “women have the right to be out whenever they like”, adding: “There are monsters out there.”

Married father-of-two Pawel Relowicz dumped Libby’s body in the River Hull in Yorkshire after raping her on a playing field in the early hours of February 1, 2019.

The 26-year-old Polish butcher was convicted of raping and murdering the 21-year-old when he chanced upon her after she had been out with friends.

Following the deaths of Ms Nessa and Sarah Everard, the Hull University philosophy student’s mother told The Sun: “Women have the right to be out whenever they like.

“The only way to stop this is to look out for one another – to teach our children, our sons, how to look out for their sisters and girlfriends. I can’t believe that now another family is going through the unbelievable pain we are all still living with.

“We can’t accept our girls being murdered on the streets. We can’t accept it, because it is simply unacceptable. Something has to happen, or it will be another month and another girl will be dead.”

PC Wayne Couzens could spend the rest of his life behind bars for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard, who he snatched as she walked home alone from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3.

Ms Nessa was killed as she walked through Cator Park in Kidbrooke, south-east London on September 17 while on her way to meet a friend.

Ms Squire, a maternity ward nurse, added: “Historically, women are always the ones at risk.”