It was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks.

For women, up and down the country, it's a scenario we all fear.

Young woman goes missing on her way home and with an awful inevitability, days later,

a man is charged with her kidnap and murder.

It almost felt a little bit like Deja Vu, I was writing about the sort of outpouring of women telling stories.

I'm kind of thinking, we have been here before though, what's going to change this time.

But what happened next was different.

As women gathered to pay their respects at a peaceful vigil, the police moved in to make arrests.

It looked really horrendous.

This was so utterly predictable.

The question would be, was the commissioner herself involved?

What went wrong that night?

And what does it mean for the police and for women's rights?

You're listening to stories of our times, from the times and the Sunday times.

I'm Manvian Rana.

Today, Sarah Everard, how her vigil galvanized a movement.

I arrived at Clapham Common at about just after 6pm on the evening.

It was crowded.

Emma Yomans is a reporter for the times.

Walking from the station, I'd got off a stop early to walk through.

You could see queues outside all the supermarkets.

That was the first thing I noticed and they were sold out of flowers.

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