Pain of losing a loved one is indescribable, says Alice Gross’s sister

Alice Gross death
Schoolgirl Alice was kidnapped in Hanwell in 2014
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The sister of murdered 14-year-old Alice Gross today offered her support to the family of Sarah Everard and spoke of the “indescribable pain” of losing a loved one.

Schoolgirl Alice was kidnapped in Hanwell in 2014 by convicted killer Arnis Zalkalns, 41, who had moved from Latvia.

This morning, artist Nina Gross, who was 19 at the time, told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “When someone is missing, it’s an indescribable pain … you are so worried about what might have happened to them. There are so many possibilities. Like the whole country, I feel very deeply for them and am thinking of them.”

Ms Gross spoke movingly of how the families of victims like Alice and Ms Everard, 33, “lose control of a loved one’s story” when they become “public property”.

Met police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, from Deal, Kent will stand trial accused of Ms Everard’s kidnap and murder in the autumn.

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