Mother 'begged prostitute daughter to go home'

The distraught mother of murdered prostitute Elizabeth Valad says she had repeatedly begged her daughter to give up her lifestyle in London and go home.

But the 29-year-old, whose body parts were discovered in Camden, north London, told her mother she was having too good a time to return to the Midlands.

Elizabeth's mother Jackie was unable to speak of the murder - and left it to her partner Peter Harrold to speak on her behalf.

In the brief interview Mr Harrold, who has been living with 49-year-old Mrs Valad in a suburb of Nottingham for the past three years said: "Jackie was always begging her to give up her life in London and come home and live with us here.

"Jackie asked me if I minded Liz coming home to live with us even though we only have a small two-bedroomed house. I said I would welcome her any time."

But the daughter who had lived a wayward life from her early teens refused to return.

Both Mr Harrold and Mrs Valad believed Elizabeth was working as a hostess.

"We didn't really know what she was doing," he said. "To me there are two or three types of prostitution and from what we could gather she was more of a hostess-type rather than the sort that walked the streets. I am sure she was not walking the streets.

"Her mother knew she was a hostess and I think she was ashamed of it and it's only in the last few days that I have really become aware of it. May be that's why she never told me."

Mrs Valad, a part-time receptionist at a car dealership in Nottingham, seldom spoke of her only daughter. Elizabeth had been the only child she had, following a short marriage in America to an Iranian. Elizabeth was only one year old when her mother returned to Nottingham to bring up her daughter on her own.