London: crowd protests against policing of Sarah Everard vigil / Who's surprised that the suspected killer of Sarah Everard is a policeman?
More than a thousand people streamed into Parliament Square in London on Sunday evening to make their voices heard outside the seat of government following clashes at a vigil for Sarah Everard, with police this time taking a hands-off approach. Calling for the resignation of the Met commissioner, Cressida Dick, and the scrapping of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, the crowd initially congregated around the statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett.
They had gathered at the police headquarters, New Scotland
Yard, on Sunday afternoon before marching to Parliament Square. Demonstrators
chanted “kill the bill” and slogans against Priti Patel, the home secretary,
who has set out a hard line on protest....
Who's surprised that the suspected killer of Sarah Everard is a policeman?
Who would have thought that, in 2021, the suspected attacker of a woman walking home in London would be a member of an institution that should have been there to protect her? There’s been an outpouring of anger across the UK after the police found human remains in Kent, now confirmed to be those of Sarah Everard, 33, who disappeared last week on her way home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London.
We don’t know much about the man who’s been detained and
questioned on suspicion of Everard’s kidnapping and murder. We know that his
name is Wayne Couzens, that he is also being questioned about a separate
allegation of indecent exposure – and that he is a serving Metropolitan
Police officer who was off-duty at the time of her disappearance…
