Sarah Montgomery’s final photo showed a hopeful mum days before her death

A photograph taken just five days before Sarah Montgomery was killed offers a glimpse of the young mother as she looked ahead to the birth of her third child. Montgomery was 27 and heavily pregnant, and the image shows her smiling as she prepared to welcome another baby. The article describes the picture as the last known photo of Montgomery. It says she appeared happy and glowing, a stark contrast to the violence that followed. Montgomery was later battered to death, according to the report, which identifies her former partner, Zak Hughes, as the person responsible. The short gap between the photograph and her death gives the image its painful significance. It captures Montgomery at a moment when she was anticipating the arrival of her child and looking toward family life, before that future was cut short. The report provides no further details about when or where the photograph was taken, or about the circumstances surrounding the killing. Its focus is on the image and the final days of a mother whose life ended while she was expecting her third child.