Hello there, I'm Alicia McCarthy-Mawks.

Hello there, I'm Alicia McCarthy.

Thanks for downloading the yesterday in Parliament podcast for Friday the 6th of March,

where a peer paid tribute to Jill Sayward on the 40th anniversary of the Ealing Vicarage attack.

Media coverage of the attack on Jill's Saywood and the sentencing of the men who attacked her

led to a public outcry about the way victims were treated,

and she later became the first rape survivor in the UK to waive her right to anonymity.

Speaking for the government, Lady Lloyd said Jill Sayward, who died in 2017, had shifted the

national conversation surrounding sexual violence. She transformed the horrific trauma she endured

into a catalyst for systemic change and became a pioneering voice, helping to dismantle the long-standing

taboos around sexual violence that silenced countless victims. She campaigned for essential

reforms to our justice system that were so desperately required. The Whitehall troubleshooter Lady

Casey, who sits as a non-party or crossbench peer, took over four minutes to read out all the names of

the women killed in the last 12 months in the UK

where the principal suspect was a man. I beg leave of this room to mark today also the fifth

anniversary of the death of Sarah Everard, rape, tortured and murdered by a serving police officer

five years ago.

May she and all the 106 women and the two children named today rest in peace.

A Labour peer and former trade union leader Lady O'Grady said she'd struggled to know how to begin her speech

following the release of the Epstein files, the glorification of state violence,

and at a time when the Middle East was on fire.

But she said the best antidote to despair was hope.

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