Families of the two students attacked in Nottingham on Tuesday morning have arrived at the vigil alongside hundreds of students at the University of Nottingham. Follow live updates: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Students had 'futures brutally curtailed by a seemingly random act of violence'
"This is one of those moments that we hope to never encounter, but which forces a way into our lives and leaves a trail of destruction that we could never imagine," he says. Hundreds of students are at the vigil and want to pay their respectsShe says the vigil reflects the"utter shock" of what has happened and"it is very difficult for people to come to terms with".
Tributes have continued to flood in for the two first-year students and the school caretaker after they were stabbed to death during the attacks.School caretaker's sons pay tribute to 'great father' who was 'four months off retirement' The woman, who asked not to be named, said she and her family were away for the night, but were alerted to the tragedy the next morning.The woman, 28, and the mother of a young daughter, said she got a lot of phone calls yesterday morning asking if she was okay but she"didn't think it would be something this major".
She said it appeared as though Grace had tried to get into the house, which"breaks my heart even more" because"if one of us had been in the house, we could have let her in - maybe we could have saved her life."Of the suspect, she said:"I don't know him. Nobody seems to know him, but he lives on this road."
"Grace was not just a sister to James but his best friend. He is completely heartbroken. As parents, words cannot explain our complete and utter devastation. She will be so dearly missed.
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