Mourners have paid their respects to Jane Khalaf one year since her death.

Family and friends braved sleet and strong winds to attend a flower-laying ceremony at her grave at Hey Lane Cemetery, Huddersfield. to keep the memory of popular and much-loved Shelley teen alive.

Jane died while in Cologne on a university exchange.

But several at the ceremony said they were still in shock or unable to accept that she had gone.

“Not a day goes by where we don’t think of her”, said her sister Naze, 17.

“She was so loved by everyone. For me it’s still so surreal and I can’t believe that she’s gone.

Friends and family gather in freezing conditions at Hey Lane Cemetery,Castle Hill, to pay their respect to Jane Khalaf one year after her death

“I keep thinking that she’s just gone away on a long trip.

“This year has been incredibly difficult for our family but coming up her on this anniversary is a way of celebrating her life.

“With people here tonight it proves that no one’s forgotten about her and we’re just grateful to have had her for 19 years”.

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Many more friends attended a memorial event held in Voda Bar in Huddersfield later on in the evening.

One of Jane’s friends, Lauren Campbell, was another who attended the graveside memorial.

She had known Jane for several years after meeting her through the Med One restaurant on Westgate which is run by Jane’s mum and dad Rojin and Khalil.

Friends and family gather in freezing conditions at Hey Lane Cemetery,Castle Hill, to pay their respect to Jane Khalaf one year after her death

She had stayed in contact with Jane while she was in Cologne, where she died of a massive brain swelling after a night out to celebrate the city’s carnival, during which it was alleged by her family that her drink had been spiked.

She said: “Everything’s just been different since then.

“We’d become good friends and we’d been talking to each other while she was in Cologne.

“For some of us, because she went away and just didn’t come back it feels like nothing has happened”.

Rojin and Khalil, along with some other family members and friends have or are due to visit her grave privately over the coming days.

Jane Khalaf

As previously reported, her family are still attempting to get a final report from German authorities which ties together official documents provided by Cologne police and medical staff at the two hospitals at which she was treated.

They have to date only seen one that included several separate reports translated together, which they said left several gaps, such as what caused her brain to swell, why she was not given a blood test upon arrival into the first hospital and why no one has been arrested over her death.