Memorial move ensures young woman stabbed to death will never be forgotten

"Beautiful" Elinor O'Brien, 22, was murdered by her 45-year-old spouse Kevin Mannion astatine his level successful Manchester and is 1 of respective women remembered with plaques highlighting home violence

A memorial to a "beautiful" young woman who was stabbed to decease by her 45-year-old spouse aims to guarantee that she and different victims of home unit are ne'er forgotten.

Elinor O'Brien was 22 erstwhile Kevin Mannion stabbed her to decease astatine his level successful the Great Northern Tower, disconnected Peter Street, successful Manchester, successful August 2022. The "violent monster" was handed a beingness condemnation successful March past twelvemonth to service a minimum word of 23 years aft a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of murder, wounding with intent and controlling and coercive behaviour.

Elinor is present 1 of 7 women killed successful home homicides whose lives volition beryllium remembered with a achromatic and bluish plaque astatine the tract of her death. It is portion of a campaign, tally by the organisation Killed Women, that aims to item what they picture arsenic "outdated" sentencing laws for those killed successful the home.

Every unsocial plaque volition diagnostic the victim's name, their beingness span, followed by the words "killed here" arsenic good arsenic the condemnation give. It volition reason with the words "murder is murder, alteration the law."

Killed Women founders Julie Davey and Carole Gould started their run for alteration pursuing the brutal murders of their daughters, Poppy Devy Waterhouse, 24, and Ellie Gould. Both were killed by their ex-boyfriends.

The organisation has said some perpetrators received a starting tariff that was importantly little than if the women had been murdered extracurricular their homes, the Manchester Evening News (M.E.N) reported. The murderers volition truthful service little clip successful situation earlier being considered for parole.

They are present calling connected the caller Labour authorities to alteration the sentencing guidelines and bring them successful enactment with murders extracurricular the home. The alteration had been promised by the erstwhile Conservative government.

According to the National Police Chiefs' Council, a full of 242 home maltreatment related deaths were recorded successful the UK betwixt April 2022 to March 2023. Of those 80 were intimate spouse homicides.

Elinor's plaque aims to propulsion for alteration by raising consciousness of her murder. Her sister Lindsay paid tribute to her. She antecedently told the M.E.N connected the time Mannion was sentenced: "A large large gaping spread has been near successful our hearts. Our Elli was the astir loyal and beauteous young woman to locomotion this earth.

"She was funny, outspoken, stubborn but astir of each courageous. She had the astir infectious laughter and the brightest grin that could airy up immoderate mood, and with that besides came the champion resting bit** face, which we could ne'er instrumentality seriously!

"Elli was loved by everyone anyplace she went. She had the purest bosom and would bash thing for anyone. It inactive hurts each time knowing that you are gone. We ne'er got to accidental goodbye, we ne'er got to archer you however overmuch we emotion you.

"Your full beingness was robbed, our hearts are broken. But your representation volition unrecorded connected forever, I committedness you that my girl. So until we conscionable again delight support watching implicit america and assistance maine usher my girls. I emotion you Ells everlastingly and always. Now I cognize the crushed and meaning of our matching tattoos #togetherforeverneverapart.

"No magnitude of justness volition marque up for your beingness that was cowardly taken, but we tin beryllium remainder assured helium volition ne'er wounded different woman."