THE sister of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa has hit out at the government for failing to support her family in the wake of the death. 

Koci Selamaj, 36, was sentenced to at least 36 years in prison last Friday for murdering Nessa, 28, in a south-east London park on September 17 last year. 

Her sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam, told the BBC that the government has “said nothing” to them and accused Home Secretary Priti Patel of using her sister’s name for “publicity reasons.” 

If their family had been a “normal white British family” they would have been treated better, she claimed. 

On Friday, Ms Patel said in a Tweet she hoped that Mr Selamaj’s sentencing would bring the family some “small comfort, knowing this evil monster has faced justice.

“As Home Secretary, tackling violence against women and girls is central to my Beating Crime Plan and I am doing everything in my power to target perpetrators, protect the public and make our streets safer for everyone,” she said.

But Ms Islam responded: “You don’t know what we as a family are going through and to be honest you haven’t even bothered to ask since the death of my sister.

“Lack of support from yourself and Boris Johnson just shows how ‘important’ it is to tackle male violence to you guys.”

She said today that the press had treated her sister’s murder differently to the murder of Sarah Everard, saying she believed this could be due to her ethnicity. 

“I feel like if we were a normal British white family we would have been treated equally, I guess,” she said.

Mr Selamaj, who has a history of domestic violence, targeted Nessa at random, hitting her 34 times with a metal traffic triangle until she was unconscious, before strangling her to death.