hundreds of people took part earlier today in a silent vigilfor zara aleena, who was murdered in east london while walking home. the 35 year old was minutes from her front door when she was attacked in ilford last week. 29 year old jordan mcsweeney has been charged with her murder. ayshea buks has been in ilford for us throughout the day. it has been an extraordinary day here, obviously very emotional for the family but they wanted to invite people here to gants hill in east london, and in their words, to walk zara home. hundreds of people joined them in doing that. they walked through the streets of gants hill to the point where we are now, and as you can see, there are women and men and also very young children. i spoke to one woman who said she wanted to bring herfour sons because she wanted them to be educated and to remember that it is not acceptable to ignore the issue of violence against women and girls, and also to show respect for women. there are also here local politicians a
the equipment it had been forced to leave behind. joe inwood, bbc news, kyiv. hundreds of people took part earlier today in a silent vigilfor zara aleena, who was murdered in east london while walking home. the 35 year old was minutes from her front door when she was attacked in ilford last week. 29 year old jordan mcsweeney has been charged with her murder. ayshea buks has been in ilford for us throughout the day. it has been an extraordinary day here, obviously very emotional for the family, but they wanted to invite people here to gants hill in east london and, in theirwords, to walk zara home. hundreds of people joined them in doing that. they walked through the streets of gants hill to the point where we are now and, as you can see, there are women and men and also very young children. i spoke to one mother who said she wanted to bring herfour sons because she wanted them to be educated and to remember that it is not acceptable to ignore the issue of violence against women