The mother of High Wycombe student Libby Squire has said she hopes the hard-hitting documentary series about her murder will help “get her message out and honour her memory” after it won a Bafta TV award.

The three-part Sky series, Libby Are You Home Yet?, which tells the story of how the 21-year-old student was abducted and murdered while walking home from a club in her university city of Hull in 2019, was awarded the factual series prize on Sunday night.

Libby’s mother Lisa Squire said she hopes the documentary’s heightened profile will help educate the public about violence against women and girls, revealing she plans to discuss the topic with the Prime Minister in the near future.

Ms Squire told the PA news agency the win was a bittersweet moment, explaining: “You’ve got friends and people saying ‘How exciting, congratulations’ and you think ‘I would give all of that up, I just want to be a normal mum sat on the sofa with all my children’.

“Doing the red carpet and all of that is absolutely amazing, and we’re really grateful, and it’s lovely, and I really enjoy it, but you’d give it up in a heartbeat if it meant you could have her back.

“But we can’t. So, we just do as much as we can to get her message out and to honour her memory.”

Ms Squire added that she was “really pleased” for the team behind the documentary as she felt they were “incredible” at honouring her daughter’s story after she had rejected a number of other companies as she felt they were too focused on Libby’s personal life rather than learning from the experience.

Following Libby’s disappearance in 2019, it sparked a large-scale manhunt effort by Humberside Police which culminated in the arrest of Pawel Relowicz, a married father-of-two and Polish butcher.

He was convicted of raping and murdering the 21-year-old student when he chanced upon her after she had been out with friends. He was jailed for a minimum term of 27 years at Sheffield Crown Court in February 2021.

The documentary chronicled Libby’s life, the hours that led to her death and the investigation that followed alongside interviews with her family, friends and the police.

The series’ director Anna Hall, from Candour productions, dedicated the Bafta award to Libby, which Ms Squire felt “really summed up” how the documentary team had handled the whole process.

“It was about her and getting her story out, and telling it beautifully, and honouring her, and I think it was really lovely that she alluded to that the only reason we’re all there is because of Libby,” she said.

Ms Squire said her message is always for women and girls to report any incidents if they are a victim of a sexual offence.

“The more women and girls that report things, the more things will have to be done”, she said.