Statue honours Indian secret agent killed at concentration camp | World news | The Guardian

A statue of Noor Inayat Khan is unveiled in central London. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

 

In the winter of 1942 only the striking beauty of the young Indian woman reading a book on a London park bench in her lunch hour would have seemed exceptional.

A statue has now been unveiled by Princess Anne near the bench in Gordon Square, commissioned by a small group determined that the extraordinary story of Noor Inayat Khan, a gentle artistic intellectual who became a secret agent in occupied France and died aged 30 in Dachau concentration camp, should not be forgotten.

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