TWITTER Hands Kader was arrested on numerous occasions

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Sex worker Hände Kader was last seen getting in to a punters car - but was reported missing by her partner when she failed to return home. The 22-year-old’s badly mutilated body was found in the upmarket neighbourhood of Zekeriyakoy. The LGBT activist has been arrested for her political campaigning on numerous occasions.

FACEBOOK Kader was a sex worker

GETTY A Turkish anti-riot police officer steps on a rainbow flag during a rally staged by the LGBT communi

Sex worker Hände Kader was last seen getting in to a punters car

Friends took to social media to express their shock and anger at her murder, with one saying that the “common mongrels” responsible for Ms Kader’s death will one day “pay the price”. Her death comes just weeks after the horrifying beheading of gay Syrian migrant Muhammed Wisam Sankari, just miles from where Ms Kader’s body was found. Mr Sankari, who fled to Istanbul to escape the war-ravaged Syria, was found dead after being raped. His body was so badly mutilated that he was only identified by the clothes he was wearing.

FACEBOOK Hate crimes against LGBT have soared in the Turkish capital in recent years