A sad day for us all. The brightest of us has lost her life fighting for us all. And the loss her children, her husband, her family and friends will be most painful. In the most desperate of times her husband gave this tribute,

"Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it everyday of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people. She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her