About Cranbrook Road
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... The attack on Cranbrook Road in Ilford lasted nine minutes and resulted in 46 separate injuries to the law graduate...
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... Her belongings were strewn along Cranbrook Road...
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... Zara Aleena, 35, was walking in Cranbrook Road, Ilford, 10 minutes from her home, when she was attacked in the early hours on 26 June...
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... The 35-year-old law graduate was minutes from her front door when she was attacked on Cranbrook Road in Ilford, east London, on Sunday...
Zara Aleena: Woman killed on street was loved by everybody, says family
... Zara Aleena, 35, was walking home along in Cranbrook Road, Ilford, when she was attacked in the early hours of Sunday...
Zara Aleena: Man in court accused of murdering 35-year-old
... Zara Aleena, 35, was walking in Cranbrook Road, Ilford, 10 minutes from her home, when she was attacked in the early hours of Sunday...
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... Zara Aleena, 35, was assaulted as she walked along Cranbrook Road, towards Gants Hill station in Ilford, in the early hours of Sunday...
Zara Aleena: Woman killed on street was loved by everybody, says family
A Woman killed in a street attack in East London was loved by everyone, her aunt has said.
Zara Aleena, 35, was Walking Home along in Cranbrook Road , Ilford, when she was attacked in the Early Hours of Sunday.
Jordan McSweeney, 29, of Dagenham,
Her aunt Farah Naz said: " She was incredibly giving supportive, insightful. . empathic and fearless. The One word that would describe Zara would be independent. "
She added: " That was what she valued More Than anything: her independence. She was quite different to the rest of us because Zara didn't have any fear.
" Whenever Zara walked, that was home for her because she knew everybody. "
'Equal and strong'Ms Naz said hundreds of people, many of whom The Family had never met, had told them they had conversations with Zara following her death.
She described Ms Aleena, who had hoped to practise as a solicitor and had completed her Legal Practice Course, as " everyone's daughter".
She had recently started work at The Royal Courts of Justice, to complete a two-year work placement in order to become a fully qualified solicitor.
She Said : " She never saw herself as less than A Man she never, ever assumed that A Man would see her less than either.
" She never thought that. She always saw herself as equal and strong, as powerful as capable. "
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