Anyone follow the coverage of the Sarah Everard case today and want to vent?

[HangingOver]

I'm home alone today and except for whatsapping my friends have nothing to do with this incandescent rage and hopeless sadness.

Anyone else need to talk?

Yes, I read the news at lunchtime and just feel numb. She stood absolutely no chance against him. Absolutely sickening that he staged a fake arrest under covid rules which was even witnessed by people driving by.

God same. It makes be unbelievably sad and incredibly angry. How are we supposed to trust the police ever again?

Yeah I just read the BBC article. How fucking DARE he do that to her! Utter, utter bastard. Her family must be completely distraught at the thought of what she went through and how she was treated, it doesn't bear thinking about.

My children are young still but things like this make me not want to send them out into the world in the future.

Yep. Feel it too.
It's utterly horrific. Using the covid laws to trick her. Why was he even allowed to work with previous allegations of flashing? It's so sickening listening to the details emerging. Can't imagine what her family are going through.

It's horrendous. It makes me so angry. And it's easy for "regular guys" to "other" this piece of shit and call him a monster/mentally ill because it's such an extreme situation but I myself and many many of my friends are victims of some form of sexual violence/assault. It's everywhere, it's in the fucking walls.

Yes this outraged me too, I could cry for her. It was, of course, awful anyway, but to know that he arrested her makes me feel sick.

The fact that he shouldn’t even have had is warrant card on him due to his indecent exposure days before is what is so infuriating. Had the police followed that up with the urgency it deserved he wouldn’t have been able to arrest her. The outcome of the investigation into their lack of action will be interesting.

Yes, was just swearing in the kitchen about this. That poor woman, I can't bear to think about how terrified she must have been. I hope he gets a whole-life sentence, anything less will not be justice.

Absolutely sickened, can't imagine what she went through and what her family are continuing to go through.

The police don't care. Men don't care. I trust neither.

So horrific. There'd have been a point at which Sarah realised that this was not a legitimate arrest and she must have felt such terror.

I hope that POS never sees the light of day again.

It's one of the worst things I've ever read. That poor woman. However he is the one to blame - I don't think we should diminish this in any way by seeking to hold anyone else to account. He is an evil man who was entirely responsible for this. Not all men. Not the police.

Yes. She had no chance. People even watched her being ‘arrested’.

I’m so angry that the previous flashing incidents were minimised and there were no consequences for him. He was allowed to remain in a position of power after that

He is an evil man who was entirely responsible for this. Not all men. Not the police.

Entirely disagree.

DoraMaude I don't entirely agree. Men must take some collective responsibility for the fact that women are routinely murdered, raped, sexually assaulted, beaten up, harassed.

He is just pure evil. So contrived and premeditated.

Absolute pig of a bastard man. I hope he rots in hell. Premeditated and disgusting abuse
of power, she never stood a chance. What she must have been through. I can’t even imagine.

'Men must take some collective responsibility' sorry but that is ridiculous. There are many decent men. Just as I as a woman do not see myself in any way responsible for the evil crimes of women like Myra Hindley and Rose West.

This man killed her. Not any other man. Do you expect her father or boyfriend to take some responsibility???

It's everywhere, it's in the fucking walls.
Exactly this. When are we actually going to see the real extent of the violence against women addressed. With 'me too', Ofsted reports into schools etc, politicians & police made all the right outraged & sympathetic noises in their soundbites. But it's so meaningless when it comes down to the everyday harm that happens to women. It's not even taken seriously by the police and the courts. Rape convictions and sentences are pitiful & dv is often not followed up, sometimes with tragic results.
Listening to this today makes me sick to my stomach because it feels like it's a problem beyond solving.

Oh Sarah. I keep thinking about how scared she must have felt as she slowly realised the truth 😞

It's absolutely horrifying! I suspected that he may have used his position in the police somehow but I didn't expect this tbh.. not sure what I did expect tho.. he's an absolute monster and I can't bare the thought of what happened to poor Sarah. I live 10 minutes from where she was abducted, it's horrifying that this monster was out there roaming around looking for his victim. Part of me wishes my boyfriend and I had gone for a walk or something at that time and see it and could have intervened or done something to stop it happening but i know it's no use thinking that :( I really feel for the lady who saw her being arrested from her car. I'd really struggle to process it all. I would almost always choose to walk home unless it was extremely late or bad weather, because I was always taught it was unsafe to get a taxi on your own... it seems it's unsafe no matter what you do!

@PatchworkElmer

Oh Sarah. I keep thinking about how scared she must have felt as she slowly realised the truth 😞

Me too. I just can’t imagine.

Men kill women in the uk at a rate of over 2 a week. This wasn’t evil at work, this wasn’t an anomaly or a one off. This is normal life! This is tolerated and permitted in our society. For it to change, all men have to change it. All of them.

Do you expect her father or boyfriend to take some responsibility

Christ, I never said anything even remotely along those lines, and it's a horrible thing to suggest that I am. I'm not going to argue with you on this as the whole thing is just too bloody upsetting and sickening.

Not the police.

Really? You don't think the police are to blame, not even in this case, not even a tiny bit?

As an institution they are corrupt and rotten to the core- they don't give a shit about women. They look after their own, cover for their corrupt colleagues and their record of failing to protect women and children speaks for itself.

@Claudethecat I agree with you and I'll say no more as it's not the right thread for it. But I understood and agreed with the point you were making and thought the meaning was obvious too.