A WALK from the spot Nahid Al-Manea was killed to where Jim Attfield died was held to show the Colchester community is unbowed by the tragedies.

Mr Attfield’s mum, Julie Finch, was joined by residents and representatives from Essex Police, the fire service, Colchester Council and chuches for the Standing Together walk on Saturday.

The group, which numbered about 40, started at the Salary Brook Trail where Essex University student Nahid, 31, was murdered on June 17.

It finished one-and-a-half miles away near Lower Castle Park, where Mr Attfield was found with 102 stab wounds on March 29.

Mrs Finch said: “To see something like this shows people are here for us. It means a lot.

“You don’t realise how much support there is. I just want to thank everybody for all the support in the past six months.”

Mrs Finch said she has visited the spot her son was killed regularly over the past six months to lay flowers, but has never walked from where he lived, in East Bay. She said: “I can see why Jim used to walk this way.

He would have loved it.

Rev Hillary Le Seve, from Greenstead and St Anne’s, suggested organising the walk.

She said: “When areas are associated with dark experiences, it is good to stand in those places and make a different statement about them.”