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?

So so horrific, poor Sarah. Such a shocking case.

The world has gone mad entirely.

I don't recognise this country any more. Nothing works properly, nobody gives a shit about anyone else but themselves and are all just butt covering all the time. It's impossible to navigate and understand.

This absolutely chilled me to the bone. The horror she must have felt. Poor Sarah. I'm so angry.

He needs a whole life term for sarahs murder , for her family and friends and for his own children , he has taken one life and destroyed many others.

@Badgercity

Anything short of a whole of life sentence will be devastating for women.

I will March even if I’m alone.

You won't be alone.

@endofagain

He is just pure evil. So contrived and premeditated.

No, he's not. That's the problem. The people who commit these unspeakable acts are ordinary people. By saying that they are evil, you lessen the impact of their crimes. It's the banality of evil, that ordinary people do bloody reprehensible things.

I'll have a go. I think it's because she did everything women are told to do to keep themselves safe. She walked home via a well-lit, busy road, not late at night, not wearing anything that could be viewed as provocative. She didn't willingly get in a car with an unknown man.

I agree, but also it is much much sadder than that imo. Its the othering of the victim in most situations, when women are killed by their partner, or when they are drunk, or walking home after midnight many people, many women, think it wouldn't happen to them because they don't do these things.
This has particularly hit home because this was a cautious women who did everything she was supposed to, and thus many more people think it could have been them.
A large proportion of society accepts that men kill women, and the fact that most killings hardly get reported let alone get noticed enough to have a vigil shoes how society accepts it. Honestly I could weep.

The fact that he handcuffed her chills me to the core. She trusted the police apparatus to ensure her safety, even when she was being unfairly arrested.

And they knew he was a flasher, a pervert! Still they did nothing. Just boys being boys!

I hope his immediate superiors are dismissed without pensions - all of them.

I'll never trust a male police officer again. I'll lock myself in my car and demand a female officer until it gets through. Shame on them.

I have no idea what my rights are with regards to male police. If they try and speak to me in a dark street or in a quiet place, do I have the right to run? Or will I be charged for resisting arrest?

Thats the scary part. He used his legitimate powers to arrest Sarah for a lawful reason. The same powers that were used against women at her vigil a short while later, too.

He took his children to play near the pond he knew her burnt remains were at the bottom of. I mean seriously, what the fuck.

There is no doubt this man was absolute evil

Except he wasn’t. He is 100% human. No magical force operated within him to make him rape and murder Sarah Everard. His actions were entirely human. We need to stop “othering” this behaviour. It is human behaviour. We need to own it.

@Bordois

I have no idea what my rights are with regards to male police. If they try and speak to me in a dark street or in a quiet place, do I have the right to run? Or will I be charged for resisting arrest?

Thats the scary part. He used his legitimate powers to arrest Sarah for a lawful reason. The same powers that were used against women at her vigil a short while later, too.

I didn’t even make that connection @Bordois. Unbelievable. What are women supposed to do?!

I'll lock myself in my car and demand a female officer until it gets through. Shame on them.

The only flaw in that plan being that "female" is now a fluid term.

Bordois - not from inside my locked car it isn't.

@Bordois

I'll lock myself in my car and demand a female officer until it gets through. Shame on them.

The only flaw in that plan being that "female" is now a fluid term.

Yep. Mr policeman, upon hearing your request for a female officer, can instantly identify as a female and be Ms policewoman. You’re no safer.

... and does present an issue in future when male cops arrest women. Not sure how that can best be handled.

It's the fact he fraudulently arrested her. It makes me sick to my stomach. Knowing the fear she must've felt. Her final hours were nothing but terror. That poor girl. I hope he rots for what he's done. Evil that's all that fucking man is, and the police, shame on them.

It absolutely chills me that Sarah will have reached that point of complete terror that she wasn't going to the nearest police station to have her wrist slapped. I didn't know her and I feel horrendous for the fear she must have felt.

I asked my DH how I could ever trust a male police officer and he didn't know what to say.

It sickens me to my core, the terror and powerlessness she must have felt - without even the opportunity to fight back...As others have pointed out, we've all felt that deep flash of fear in a car before and to know that this time it was true...

Just doesn't bear thinking about. But we must.

And Sabine Nassa - in that 5 minute walk to the pub..my god.

There was another assault on a woman by a police officer I read about earlier this year. It was even caught on cctv yet this woman had to really hound the police to get them to investigate- they did nothing for months!! And the man is question was let off with a slapped wrist!
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/west-midlands-police-officer-assault-woman-curfew-b925290.html

Women being murdered while going about their business has happened for centuries and every so often one murder shocks us more than others, but nothing will change until each one of us takes responsibility to stamp out misogynistic behaviour when we witness it and not let it slide by with a shrug of our shoulders.

It just seems never ending at the moment. I was at the GP's earlier (yes I know I am lucky to get a face to face appointment) and the TV was showing Judge Rinder investigating a cold case - of course a murder of a woman, presumably sexually motivated as whoever had killed her had changed her shoes for these odd worn heeled mules. I seethed for a couple of minutes and then went to the receptionist and asked her to turn it over. "What do you want on?" - just something that's not about women being murdered.

According to written statements from colleagues he was partial to 'brutal sexual pornography' his lawyer says as that was from 2002 it was 'irrelevant'.

I beg to fucking differ.

I don't wanna hear "not all men" ever again in my life. This pig was nicknamed "The Rapist" and yet he was STILL allowed to be in the force. It just sickens me to the corr

I feel sick. I've just read her mother's statement and I'm struggling not to cry.

His police colleagues gave him the nickname ‘the rapist’ because of his behaviour towards women.