Tributes are paid to 19-year-old Grace O'Malley-Kumar who died after being stabbed in Nottingham.
The father of Nottingham attack victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar has described his daughter as an "angelic girl" in a poignant eulogy at her funeral.
University of Nottingham students Ms O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, also 19, were stabbed to death in Ilkeston Road on 13 June.Image caption,During the service for medical student Ms O'Malley-Kumar, her father Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said: "No father should be called upon to give a eulogy for their child.
Dr Kumar spoke about his daughter's dedication to medicine and mentioned she had volunteered to vaccinate people when he became the operations lead for a Covid vaccination centre in Waltham Forest. "I have to ask, what kind of angelic child tries to outdo others in serving her country and her community, but that is exactly the sort of girl Grace was, she was truly amazing."Her mother Sinead O'Malley told the service her daughter had been "cruelly and inexplicably taken"."Her birth registered here, and it is now from Westminster that she will leave.
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