Police have urged witnesses who recorded the murder of a hairdresser on their mobile phones to have in the footage as evidence and not put it online.
Publishing videos of the murder and its aftermath on YouTube or LiveLeak would add to the torment already facing the family of 20-year-old Hollie Gazzard, after she was stabbed to death at Fringe Benefits salon in Gloucester.
Police were called to reports of a man attacking a woman at the salon on Southgate Street at approximately 17:50 yesterday. The ambulance service arrived soon afterwards and transported Gazzard to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where she died of her injuries.
A local 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the attack, and he is being held at Cheltenham police station as enquiries continue into the incident.
Gloucestershire Police have appealed to any witnesses to the attack to contact police by calling 101 and quoting incident 340 of February 18.
The family of Hollie Gazzard have issued a statement saying:
Hollie is our daughter and was a beautiful, happy and loving girl. She was full of life and we are very proud of her. She was at the beginning of her life and to have it taken away in this manner is very hard to bear. Everybody she came in contact with loved her, enjoyed her company, her happy nature and her sense of fun. The world has lost a treasure, she was so loved by all her family and friends and the brightest star in their lives has now gone out. The only comfort we have at this time is that Hollie is now free and at peace and that no harm can ever come to her as she lives with the angels in heaven.
We are grateful for all the support of our family and friends and would like to express our thanks to the medical staff who tried so hard to save Hollie and to the police for their sympathetic and understanding care. We would ask the media to respect our privacy and allow us time to come to terms with our loss.
