Mom of Libby Squire hopes documentary raises consciousness after Bafta win
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he mom of scholar Libby Squire has mentioned she hopes the hard-hitting documentary collection about her homicide will assist “get her message out and honour her memory” after it received a Bafta TV award.
The three-part Sky collection, Libby Are You Home Yet?, which tells the story of how the 21-year-old scholar was kidnapped and murdered whereas strolling dwelling from a membership in her college metropolis of Hull in 2019, was awarded the factual collection prize on Sunday evening.
Libby’s mom Lisa Squire mentioned she hopes the documentary’s heightened profile will assist educate the general public about violence in opposition to ladies and women, revealing she plans to debate the subject with the Prime Minister within the close to future.
Ms Squire advised the PA news company the win was a bittersweet second, explaining: “You’ve got friends and people saying ‘How exciting, congratulations’ and you think ‘I would give all of that up, I just want to be a normal mum sat on the sofa with all my children’.
“Doing the red carpet and all of that is absolutely amazing, and we’re really grateful, and it’s lovely, and I really enjoy it, but you’d give it up in a heartbeat if it meant you could have her back.
“But we can’t. So, we just do as much as we can to get her message out and to honour her memory.”
Ms Squire added that she was “really pleased” for the crew behind the documentary as she felt they have been “incredible” at honouring her daughter’s story after she had rejected quite a lot of different firms as she felt they have been too targeted on Libby’s private life somewhat than studying from the expertise.
Following Libby’s disappearance in 2019, it sparked a large-scale manhunt effort by Humberside Police which culminated within the arrest of Pawel Relowicz, a married father-of-two and Polish butcher.
He was convicted of raping and murdering the 21-year-old scholar when he chanced upon her after she had been out with associates. He was jailed for a minimal time period of 27 years at Sheffield Crown Court in February 2021.
The documentary chronicled Libby’s life, the hours that led to her loss of life and the investigation that adopted alongside interviews along with her household, associates and the police.
The collection’ director Anna Hall, from Candour productions, devoted the Bafta award to Libby, which Ms Squire felt “really summed up” how the documentary crew had dealt with the entire course of.
“It was about her and getting her story out, and telling it beautifully, and honouring her, and and I think it was really lovely that she alluded to that the only reason we’re all there is because of Libby,” she mentioned.
Ms Squire mentioned her message is all the time for girls and women to report any incidents if they’re a sufferer of a sexual offence.
“The more women and girls that report things, the more things will have to be done”, she mentioned.
“(The Bafta) will have kicked off the whole campaigning again in a really nice way without me having to do too much legwork, which is a positive really.
“I still go into schools and talk to sixth-formers predominantly about when they go off to university, about never leaving your friends.
“If your friend’s too drunk to get into a club, or if your friend isn’t feeling very well, go home with them, you can go out next night because bad things happen, not frequently, but do you want to risk it?
“As I’ve said 1000s of times, I don’t blame the girls that she was with that night for this happening, but I think we can use it as a learning experience.
“If they have the knowledge, and if they have the the understanding and the education around it, then they can make better choices and then they don’t have to live with what we all have to live with, us as Libby’s family and her friends, the ripple effects are massive.”
Ms Squire is at present engaged on an training package deal with Thames Valley Police which she hopes will go nationwide after they check it in native faculties.
She added: “I’ve been re-energised with the Baftas last night, so I’m now going to get back on the political thing and have a meeting with Rishi Sunak and talk about violence against women and girls.”