Cambridge victims of London Bridge who had so much more to give
sion for criminology at Cambridge, where she gained a first-class degree with honours after taking a one-year philosophy masters in criminology, working as a bartender in her spare time. At Cambridge, she joined its Officers Training Corps as an officer cadet and became a proponent of campus sport.
Miss Jones had been working as a personal trainer since August while volunteering at Learning Together. Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, director of Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, which organises the scheme, said: ‘Saskia’s warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation.’
Professor Gelsthorpe said Miss Jones graduated from the university in 2018, but remained in contact with Learning Together, adding: ‘They valued her contributions enormously and were inspired by her determination to push towards the good.’
Olivia Smith, a lecturer in criminology who marked Miss Jones’s dissertation at Anglia Ruskin University, described her as ‘one of a kind’ who ‘would have been a force for good’.
Dr Smith said: ‘I’m so sorry that the world won’t get to see what she could have achieved. Saskia’s dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it.’
Anglia Ruskin University said: ‘We’re extremely sad to learn Saskia Jones was the second victim of the London Bridge attack. This has come as a great shock. We’re exceptionally proud of her achievements.’