The Met Police and violence against women | Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice – BBC

The Met Police and violence against women | Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice – BBC

The Met is haunted by the rape and murder of Sarah everard but abuse in the ranks is something all forces are having to come to terms with a former greater Manchester police officer who groomed Cadets on a scheme run by the force has been jailed for 5 years South Wales

Police officer who blackmailed and threatened underage girls to send him explicit photos of themselves on Snapchat has been jailed for Life Shannon mhall told us how PC Simon Miller escorted her to a woman’s refuge in Grimsby and then slept with her today he was jailed for 2 years and 4 months

With humberside police calling his actions utterly reprehensible it’s not very often that a case comes along that starts a national conversation but it is much bigger than just what we see in the police it’s what we see right across Society how issues of violence against women and girls are

Taken more generally and we see it seeping through to people’s everyday Behavior I don’t think that the incident is of violence against women and girls is reducing or decreasing in any way in fact it would appear to me that it’s getting worse can you leave me alone can

You leave me excuse me can you help me please can you leave me the alone go away what is wrong with you I’ll follow you though violence against women and girls is a men’s issue men need to speak up men need to stand with women and not against them Listen up men it’s time to do better that includes you that includes your dad that includes me that includes all men Sarah could have been any girl could have been my girlfriend but it’ll never be me it’ll never be me it never could have been me that’s what women feel in

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Since Sarah Everard’s murder, the narrative of ‘one bad apple’ has been destroyed. Her case highlighted the devastating issues within our police forces and the extent of violence against women and girls in our society.

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The murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer who abducted her as she walked to her home in south London in March 2021 was a watershed moment for the nation. It brought to the fore the devastating issue of male predators within the country’s police forces and highlighted the extent of violence against women and girls in British society – an issue recently declared a national priority alongside terrorism and organised crime.

This documentary looks at the Met’s investigation into Sarah’s murder, how this devastating crime unfolded and its impact – told by those closely involved in the case from the outset, many of whom are speaking on camera for the first time, including the senior investigating officer, Katherine Goodwin, the prosecuting barrister, Tom Little, and Sarah’s local MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy.

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