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The family of a woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered as she walked home have said they are “tortured” with the thought her death was preventable. Law graduate Zara Aleena, 35, was killed by Rochester man Jordan McSweeney in June 2022. McSweeney was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 38 years at the Old Bailey six months after Zara was killed as she walked home from a night out in Ilford. In November 2023, he won a Court of Appeal bid to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence. During an inquest into her niece’s death, Zara’s aunt, Farah Naz, told the jury at East London Cor…

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