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Woman's Hour

Emma Barnett covers the reaction to Sarah Everard’s vigil and the actions of the Metropolitan Police

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Reaction to Sarah Everard’s vigil and the actions of the Metropolitan Police . Among the thousands who came to Clapham Common in South London on Saturday night to pay their respects to her were feminist writer and member of Southall Black Sister, Rahila Gupta and campaigner and columnist at the i, Kate Maltby. Emma speaks to them both, and to Sir Peter Fahy, retired former Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police about the policing of the event. Plus we hear from Jan Royall, Baroness Royall about the idea of putting together a data base of offenders convicted of harassment, coercive control and stalking similar to the sex offenders register.

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Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womanza from BBC Radio 4.

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Good morning.

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Strong, principled and a shining example to us all. That is how Sarah

0:45.8

Everrod is described by her parents and older siblings in their only public

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statement. The discovery of Sarah's body at the end of last week in a Kent

0:54.2

woodland after she disappeared walking home in South London has prompted vigils

0:58.7

and protests over the weekend and police clashes, something we shall get to shortly.

1:04.0

Over the weekend thousands of largely women felt compelled to visit Clapham Common

1:09.0

with flowers and signs from students to activists to mothers, grandmother's daughters, even a future

1:15.2

queen in the shape of the Duchess of Cambridge where a memorial for Sarah Everard has

1:19.6

sprung up on the bandstand with many more unable to go or not able to go due to the

1:25.0

COVID restrictions not feeling like they can lighting a candle at home or

1:29.2

standing on their doorstep to remember the 33 year old woman, sister, daughter, niece, girlfriend and friend who was just walking home.

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Her aunt, Andrea Everard, has told the Sun newspaper that it's not right that women don't feel safe on the street.

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