What Do We Tell Our Daughters?

Today I read in a news report that under the guise of COVID laws, Wayne Couzens ‘arrested’ Sarah Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house, put her handcuffed into his car and drove her to a spot in Kent where he raped and murdered her.

That is all I know. That is all I want to know.

And to be honest, I knew it already. It seemed obvious to me, from the point that we knew a serving Met police officer had taken a woman off the streets and killed her, that she would never have got into his car unless he had used his position of power over her. It’s what men do every day. 

Yet what we have re-confirmed today is this: The Metropolitan Police cannot keep women safe in their own homes. The Metropolitan Police cannot keep women safe on the streets. And The Metropolitan Police cannot keep women safe from their own officers.

And still, the Commissioner stays in her position. All these failings and no accountability.

In fact, no, scrap that. It is not just the Metropolitan Police, it is …