'We have to stand beside [Lyra's family] on this terrible cross that has been visited on them by such an evil, evil act.'
PSNI have launched a murder investigation following her killing in the Fanad Drive area of Creggan last night.
“They just thought it was somebody else, they really thought it had to be somebody else, [that] it wasn’t Lyra. But unfortunately it was,” he said. “If they came over and saw that scene of a young woman and her family… This is their Good Friday, and we have to stand beside them on this terrible cross that has been visited on them by such an evil, evil act.”At the time of her death, Lyra was working on two books: Angels with Blue Faces, to be published this year with Excalibur Press, and The Lost Boys to be published by Faber, who described her as a “rising star”, next year.
“Sabina and I send our deepest sympathies to her family and friends and to all those who knew her and worked with her,” he said. The Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Seamus Dooley described Lyra’s death as “a loss to journalism” and said it was “a dark day”.Tánaiste Simon Coveney also expressed his condolences to Lyra’s family and called on anyone with information about her death to report it to the PSNI.
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