A BRADFORD MP spoke of her sadness after laying flowers at the scene where a mother was fatally stabbed.
Detectives have revealed that an Oldham man, aged 25, has been detained more than 170 miles from Bradford over the death of 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter, who was attacked in Westgate on Saturday.
The young mother was stabbed in the neck as she pushed her baby in pram in the street.
The T&A understands the man arrested is Habibur Masum, who has been the subject of police appeals since Saturday.
Bradford West MP Naz Shah visited the scene in the city centre and said: “I’m here because of the shock and horror that it has sent through the constituency – the amount of people that I’ve been speaking to that are really, really horrified by this.
“I think it is important to express that hurt.”
After laying flowers, Ms Shah said: “There’s a problem across society when it comes to violence against women. It’s not just a West Yorkshire issue.”
She said: “A woman has lost her life while she was pushing a baby in a pram in broad daylight and that, ultimately, we need services, we need more resources."
Turning to the wider issue, she said: "There is a culture that it’s OK to kill a woman, hit a woman – that is not OK.
“We’ve lost a 27-year-old here in broad daylight. That is just not OK. That’s what we need to be concentrating on right now.”
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