Aalia Mahomed, a 20-year-old student at Kingâs College London, was killed when a van drove through closed gates and struck the bench she occupied. Despite her familyâs calls for information, they have faced a lack of updates from the Metropolitan Police. Her mother, Samira Shafi, expresses frustration with the slow investigation process, while highlighting the emotional toll of uncertainty following the traumatic event. The van driver has been arrested but released pending further inquiry, leaving the family with lingering questions about the circumstances that led to Aalia's tragic death.
I haven't got answers to what happened that day. It's been slow. I keep being told an investigation is being carried out and these things take time, which I appreciate. But the silence is quite difficult for us because for us these eight weeks have felt like a lifetime.
It's hard because we just have the silence. And that's hard to get your head around - you try and be patient, but at the same time you want some sort of understanding on it all.
I got a call from Aalia's friend. There was just blue lights everywhere, it was cordoned off. It is a pedestrian zone and it's really hard to make sense of any of it because she wasn't doing anything dangerous - she was sat on a bench.
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