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Mother of Bryonny Sainsbury still talks to daughter in room she keeps as memorial to her

Maeve Sheehan

Bryonny Sainsbury’s bedroom is much as she left it. A bottle of Jo Malone cologne on a dressing table. Make-up brushes in a jug. Clothes draped over a huge, full-length mirror propped against a wall.

A wardrobe with its doors wide open crammed with clothes. Hair tongs poking out of a bag. A saddle on a chair. Walls covered with photographs that tell the story of her life up to that fateful Thursday — August 26, 2021.