27 June 2025, 08:27

By Farah Naz

Three years. It still doesn’t feel real.

Three years without Zara’s voice, her ambition, her laughter, her kindness. She should be here — building her legal career, shaping a better world with that fierce sense of fairness that guided her. Instead, we gather again to remember a life stolen. We walk because she can’t. We speak because she was silenced.

Zara’s death was the result of systemic failure - not just in one moment, but over many years. The man who murdered her had a long, violent record. There were warning signs: his first crime at 12, the assault of a partner, the stabbing of another. There were repeated opportunities to intervene, and repeated inaction. The inquest confirmed what we already knew: Zara’s death was preventable.

When Zara died, something rare happened -........

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