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?

@Claudethecat

If he doesn't get a whole-life sentence, I think we need to get out on the streets to protest.

I agree. No other sentence could be appropriate.

Anyone else remember this case form 2020 when a police officer brazenly strangled his lover to death in his car and almost got away with it?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/19/police-officer-strangled-partner-revealed-affair-wife-has-sentence/amp/

I don't think people realise how common domestic violence, drug use and affairs are within the police force, it is rife.

I can't see anything less than life imprisonment would be acceptable. Meaning with no release ever. If he survives that long.

Women have no defence. No mace, no pepper spray. I understand they don't want violence but I NEED A WEAPON. I live 1mile away from her. I am frightened. Women deserve a chance

@Viviennemary I really want him to survive (in prison) I want him to suffer as long as possible.

I'm sick of it. There needs to be change. Every damn week we see someone's daughter, mother, grandmother, sister and friend killed at the hands of another evil man.
WHEN Is this gonna stop

@CorianderAndCream

Women have no defence. No mace, no pepper spray. I understand they don't want violence but I NEED A WEAPON. I live 1mile away from her. I am frightened. Women deserve a chance

If we make those things legal to carry and easy to purchase though they'll just get used on women.

@MrsRobbieHart yes the ones I have read about i clearly have and thats quite a deflectioN

Centre for Women's Justice super-complaint regrading police perpetrated domestic abuse and the failure of the police in dealing with these perpetrators:

www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2020/3/9/police-officers-allowed-to-abuse-with-impunity-in-the-locker-room-culture-of-uk-forces-super-complaint-reveals

Have just read the families statements and my heart breaks for them again.

Sarah RIP

Watched the footage of him trying to sell the investigating officers a crock of shit about procuring her for a gang. He is evil scum. I feel very sorry for his wife and children, being related to a monster, although his sins are his alone.

Also feel sorry for the people who witnessed her standing beside his car and didn’t intervene because they presumed he was an undercover cop. I saw on sky news that one of the cars that passed them standing there was a marked police car. You’d think those officers might have noticed they didn’t recognise this undercover cop arresting a girl in the street 🤔

I think the most horrific thing about the whole case is the length of the drive he took her on and the fact she realised at some point during that drive that she was trapped with handcuffs on in his car 😢

RIP Sarah. My thoughts are with your family and friends. I cannot even say this deviants name but, the police seriously need to look at his background. I think given by the nature of his crime, he gives the impression he has done this before. The way he planned this disturbs me greatly. They also need to be having a good look at his 'colleagues'. They also need to interview female colleagues who may have been assigned to work with him. It makes me wonder what do female police officers now think of their job and do they now look at male colleagues in a different light?What are the police recruiting? How are they missing men like this murderer? Many questions to answer. The police force ignore all this at their peril. They need to learn from this and so do we.

Marked police car drove past, never once thought to radio through and check whether anything was dodgy about it. They sing from the same song sheet. ACAB or nothing.

ACAB

[quote TeachesOfPeaches]Centre for Women's Justice super-complaint regrading police perpetrated domestic abuse and the failure of the police in dealing with these perpetrators:

www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2020/3/9/police-officers-allowed-to-abuse-with-impunity-in-the-locker-room-culture-of-uk-forces-super-complaint-reveals[/quote]
Thank you for posting that. The Centre for Women's Justice are also the charity who tackled the government over the 1 in 60 of reported - REPORTED - rapes resulting in a charge - a charge, not a conviction. They took the CPS to Judicial Review, and that forced Priti Patel to make a statement, as the public finally heard what was happening. They do amazing work.

www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk

If anyone reading this is angry and wants to donate to a charity fighting like hell to push back the tide of hatred and violence towards women, this is for you. I can't say enough about how much I admire their work, and when they are operating on this tiny a shoestring a small monthly donation can really add up.

About Sarah Everard going home 'at a sensible time'

So true I think this has scared many because due to society some people still believe it’ll never happen to them as they’re not out in early hours, wearing revealing clothing. They follow ‘the rules’

There shouldn’t have to be any rules - there is no excuse for anyone to abuse anyone in any way and to treat them like an object.

Society needs to change. How is it fine that anyone anywhere should have a nickname the rapist and that not be investigated rather than locker room bantz?!

In the same way, it shouldn’t be fine that women need to follow rules and be home ‘at a sensible hour’ just to survive.

Couzens used his power as a police officer to lure this poor woman. The fear of the unknown as they drove further out of London into the darkness makes me sick. That poor woman, her poor family and friends and his poor wife and children. So many lives ruined by this selfish and conceited pig.

@HangingOver

LukeEvansWife that sounds like a snark dressed up as a "genuine question" [head tilt]

Just go away I don't have to justify why I started this thread.

That poster has form for these kinds of comments. Best to ignore them.

I can't get her out of my head.
When would she have realised?
An 80 mile trip is about an hour and half isn't it?
At what point did she notice something was wrong.

RIP Sarah, you won't ever be forgotten.

We've been saying for years that violent porn showing women as disposable prey to be used and abused will affect the male psyche in some men and were dismissed as prudes.

I note that he watched violent porn.

What a horror for his wife and kids too!

@Claudethecat

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.

That's unfair. Is your father responsible? Your brother? Your son?

I am haunted by the cctv footage of them on the street. I can’t imagine fear like that when she realised he wasn’t taking her to be questioned. I know I shouldn’t think too hard on it as it will make me anxious, but I’m struggling and keep hoping she was able to think of something, or somewhere, to escape during what he done.

@Caligal I'm the same. I can't get the image out of my mind. It's so harrowing.

I learnt from a very young age to never trust the police.

In the late 1990s when I was 17 years old, I lost contact with my family who weren’t on the last train home as we had agreed, and two police officers I were speaking to on the train offered me a lift from the train station to home. While they were driving me to my house and I was asking questions about a career in the police force, 1 officer, the more senior officer, tried to digitally rape me. I reported this to the police ombudsman the next day and was told I wouldn’t be believed, and encouraged not to pursue my complaint. I have only recently raised this complaint again following the #me too movement, and are still waiting for any response. But I doubt there are records remaining to identify the perpetrator.

Corruption in the police force is rampant IMO. I am confident that this incident is representative of a greater malaise in the police force. I am angry and devastated for Sarah and her family.

@sleeponeday Brilliant post!