'A beacon of hope': tributes pour in for murdered teenager Aya Hachem

Committed student came to UK with family as they fled Lebanon a decade before she was killed in Blackburn

Five years after her family fled violence in Lebanon, a 14-year-old Aya Hachem sat with her parents at a charity event to help traumatised refugees settle into life in Lancashire.

Hachem was not one to simply settle. She thrust herself into British life. She learned English, excelled at school, and became one of the Children's Society's youngest ever trustees aged 16. She seemed destined to fulfil her ambition to become an international lawyer.