He DID use the Covid laws to carry out a bogus arrest on Sarah Everard.

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Tristan Kirk
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The Met Police officer who kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard used Covid-19 laws to carry out a bogus arrest of the 33yo, the Old Bailey has heard.

He was carrying an array of police equipment and posing as an undercover cop when he handcuffed and captured her.

That is chilling.

There’s not much to say to that. Not that can be published at any rate.

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/wayne-couzens-sentencing-sarah-everard-old-bailey-b957808.html

I don't even have the words

How utterly horrific. That poor woman, and his callous and calm actions afterwards, taking his children to the pond he discarded poor Sarah!!

I just, well...it's unfathomable.

Utterly, utterly sickening for so many reasons.

Poor, poor Sarah and her loved ones.

It could have been any young woman and so easy to oblige in the situation of lockdown laws criminalising innocuous actions and in the face of authorised police actions such as at Foremark im Derbyshire.

And the reaction at the time of the inevitable "what was she doing out at night" and the irony of the "but lockdown, stay the fuck at home" regurgitating the excuse that this perverted scum used to bait her.

And the reaction at the time of the inevitable "what was she doing out at night" and the irony of the "but lockdown, stay the fuck at home" regurgitating the excuse that this perverted scum used to bait her

Exactly.. Hope the rat faced cunt rots in hell

It actually raises the question that the Covid laws may have made women less safe.

If the regulations hadn't been in place, would Sarah Everard have been walking home late at night by herself? Even if she had been, would there not likely have been more people around? And leaving that aside, the regulations enabled this sleazebag to con her into thinking she had done something she could be "arrested" for. These laws left women vulnerable in many ways.

"Stay the fuck at home." Maybe not so easy if you have an abusive partner.

Give birth without anyone at your side. Go alone to an antenatal appointment and learn that your baby isn't going to survive. Nice.

Walk home from your key-worker job and get assaulted on the street, because it's dead quiet out there and there's no one around to witness it.

And yet some people, no names, claim that the lockdown was so good for women.

What women faced with living with their abusers day and day out

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

Reading about all this I have been crying on and off all night, can't stop thinking of what she went through. Does anyone know is it legal that an off duty/undercover police officer is allowed to arrest a lone woman? I have 2 daughters and it is terrifying that something like this could happen again. Surely if this is the case the law needs to be changed to protect women?!

@hepatocyte

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

Very well said, thank you.

@hepatocyte

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

This. Don’t use her like this.

It's not only the fact that she was raped & strangled, it's what he did with her body afterwards, dumped her in the woods, then later he took his family for a walk in the same wood & then that night moved her body to put her inside a fridge that had been dumped & set fire to it, her family didn't even have the comfort of being able to see her for the last time. I hope he gets a whole life sentence, it's what he deserves, you are supposed to be able to trust the police, he had to be a special kind of sick & evil to abuse his powers to do something like this.

@hepatocyte

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

Absolutely this. It's disrespectful to use this tragedy to perpetuate anti-lockdown rhetoric.

@Jourdain11

It actually raises the question that the Covid laws may have made women less safe.

If the regulations hadn't been in place, would Sarah Everard have been walking home late at night by herself? Even if she had been, would there not likely have been more people around? And leaving that aside, the regulations enabled this sleazebag to con her into thinking she had done something she could be "arrested" for. These laws left women vulnerable in many ways.

"Stay the fuck at home." Maybe not so easy if you have an abusive partner.

Give birth without anyone at your side. Go alone to an antenatal appointment and learn that your baby isn't going to survive. Nice.

Walk home from your key-worker job and get assaulted on the street, because it's dead quiet out there and there's no one around to witness it.

And yet some people, no names, claim that the lockdown was so good for women.

Yep.

They should bring back hanging for people like him.

Agree @Jourdain11

@hepatocyte

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

It is entirely relevant when that is the pretext that's been exploited to make an incredibly easy target of a women who's never fallen foul of the law before and the law prohibits otherwise normal activities. Plus a rapidly changing situation on who can do what with whom affecting confidence to resist and argue. (Not that I'm convinced that all the women saying they'd resist actually would...) He had the advantage and exploited that. I don't disagree that he would have reached this point anyway, but quiet streets and an easy "crime" to make an arrest for made it so much easier than under regular circumstances.

Many police forces have overstepped the mark on enforcement of interpretations of Covid law, mainly by fines that were later revoked rather than by arrest. Right from the start in March 2020 there was criticism of overzealous policing. There has been high profile precedent of women in trouble with the police for things like being insuffciently local at 5 miles away and in posession of hot chocolate rendering exercise as a picnic.

The Covid lockdown situation was an absolute gift in making a heinous crime easy to carry out and less effort than it would have been normally where it would be more obvious that an arrest was on spurious grounds.

@hepatocyte

I don't think it's ok to politicise her murder as ammo for anti-lockdown threads.

What happened to Sarah was hideous, the worst thing anyone could imagine, and the POS who did this would have found a way to use his police status to commit these crimes whatever the situation, pandemic or no pandemic.

May she rest in peace and her family be brought some comfort now the trial is almost over.

Well said.

Sorry, posting this on every thread as this is how my local police force respond.
Women, police your behaviour.

Equally ppl shouldnt politicise for pro lockdown either (screenshot in link)

twitter.com/HollieAnneB/status/1443327678380138501?s=20

It's not perpetuating anti-lockdown rhetoric, it's examining what the real consequences of limiting people's freedom so severely can be, should it ever be considered again.

I'd love someone to amend that poster and make a new version advising women to stick together and stay away from male police officers on the street.

Hare it has been suggested in some of the Facebook comments, although mostly comments centre on what a good idea that is, women sticking together...