BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello,
I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the activist Mina Smallman.
She was a teacher for 20 years before following her faith and training for the priesthood.
In 2013,
she became the Church of England's first woman of colour to be appointed an archdeacon serving Southend in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
But it's as a mother that she became a campaigner.
In 2020,
her daughters Biba and Nicole were murdered in a senseless attack after a birthday picnic in a local park.
The horror of her daughter's deaths at the hands of a complete stranger was compounded by the news
that two policemen who were guarding the crime scene posed for and posted selfies with Bieber and Nicole's bodies in the background.
They were later jailed for misconduct.
When friends first reported her daughters missing,
the police didn't launch an official search for them,
and it was their loved ones who eventually found them.
On hearing the news of her daughter's deaths, she says she simply screamed.