SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

Families of London Bridge

victims call for legal aid

‘Why did killer’s relatives get help and we didn’t,’ they ask

James Hodder’s girlfriend was stabbed to death while helping a victim (Supplied)

LIZZIE DEARDEN

SECURITY CORRESPONDENT

The partner of a nurse murdered in the London Bridge attack is calling for the government to change a
“horrific” process in which legal aid is granted to terrorists’ families but denied to those of their victims.

James Hodder has won the backing of more than 250,000 supporters and dozens of MPs in a campaign to
ensure the situation cannot be repeated at the upcoming Manchester bombing inquests. His 28-year-old
girlfriend, Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, was stabbed to death while helping another victim during a

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