Pretty Doyin
Sarah Fagbenro, 25 ,was killed
in a hit and run accident in Lagos. Her funeral was held at All Nations Church
in Bedford on Saturday, January 23. Mourners wore red, her favourite colour.
Her heartbroken mother Dupe, a hospital pharmacist, told the Standard:
"She was beautiful, intelligent, adventurous and
caring. She was absolutely everything to us. She had a very bright future but
it has ended in this tragedy."
Miss Fagbenro, was named one of the UK’s 10 most
outstanding black students in the 2010 Rare Rising Stars Awards, was reportedly
in collision with a bus as she drove to church in capital Lagos on January 10.
The straight-A student, the eldest of four siblings, grew
up in Canning Town and graduated in law from Queen Mary’s University in east
London in 2013.
In a moving tribute written by her family she was
described as having an "adventurous nature and fierce independence"
"Her relentless determination was an inspiration to
so many, yet never deterred from her playfulness and love for life; she loved
to laugh, party and smile."
"Even through her most testing times she never lost
her sense of humour and could always be trusted to lift the spirits of those
around her."
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