Figen Murray, proud mum of Martyn Hett, has devoted her time to promoting peace since the tragic loss of her son in the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack.

As well as fundraising to support those affected, she has visited schools, delivered a speech to the Step Change Summit and is pursuing a masters degree in counter terrorism.

Further to this she is campaigning for 'Martyn's Law', which hopes to heighten security measures in public venues.

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Well, life was pretty normal. We had our trials and tribulations like every family has, and going about our business. And then the attack happened and our life was divided in before Martyn died and after Martyn.
Martyn was a laugh a minute. He was a live wire. He absolutely loved being on this planet, full stop. He was as mad as anything. Always, he had an incredible sense of humour, always pulling our leg – mine in particular. I was very handy for him. I was so gullible with him. Sadly, there was always a camera rolling at the same time to make everybody else laugh so, yeah, I kind of wish he’d carry on doing that, really. He always said he was going to die young. He said he wouldn’t see his 30th birthday, although it didn’t stop him trying to plan for it.
So obviously our family liaison officers have got in touch with us, telling us we need a solicitor as the inquest was nearing. I feel there’s a big effort by everybody to get it right for us families and I respect that.
Before Martyn died, obviously, I used to see terrorist attacks on the news. It kind of made me feel uneasy so I would often think, ‘Oh my god, those poor people on TV,’ and I would switch channels. It was just too much and I pretty much ignored it then. Never in a million years would I have thought I would be one of those people.
I didn’t know anything about terrorism, but now I need to understand what I could do personally to try and help make things better and hopefully the course will give me some of the answers.
The petition is something I started all by myself and that was a result of my husband and I going to a local theatre in Manchester. For some reason after Martyn died I just assumed that since the attack venues are mega keen on security and to my horror and surprise we just walked in. And I remember sitting during one of the songs and I had tears running down my face and my husband said, “It’s an emotional song, isn’t it? Is that why you’re crying?” And I said, “I’m not crying because of that. I’m crying because Martyn and the others died because of some stupid oversight like lack of security.” And a few days later I thought, ‘I need to do something about this!’ and that’s when I launched the government petition.

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