A Suffolk mother who was "the best sister anybody could ask for" died with stab wounds in London after she had just found out she was four weeks pregnant with her third child, according to her sister.
Police received reports of an injured woman at about 3am on Monday and found Alana Odysseos, from Newmarket, “suffering stab wounds” at a property in Walthamstow in London.
Ms Odysseos died at the scene.
Shaine March, 46, then appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with murdering Ms Odysseos.
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Ms Odysseos' sister, Jasmine Yates, who grew up in Newmarket with her, said that her sister will be remembered as a “pure-hearted person”.
She said she was “trying to be the strong one” after she learned of her sister’s death at around 9.30am on Monday morning from her sister’s friend, who “witnessed what happened”.
Ms Yates added: “I’m feeling broken at the same time because that was my sister and we were so close. I didn’t want to believe it, and I feel like I’m just in a living nightmare.”
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She added that Ms Odysseos was “just the best sister anybody could ask for".
Ms Yates said: “We grew up in Newmarket and that is where all of our family are buried and is where Alana has always said that she wanted to be buried because she wants to be with our nan, my nanny Patricia, who she was very close to growing up.
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“We’re all truly devastated and struggling so much to come to terms with this that we feel so much anger at the same time.”
Ms Yates said her sister had two daughters aged 12 and two and was “such a happy and bubbly person”.
“She completely doted on her children and she was so excited to become a mother again because she just found out she was four weeks pregnant,” Ms Yates said.
“She loved her music – you’d always find her with her Alexa on loud in the kitchen just singing and dancing away."
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