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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Caroline Davies

‘I almost cried’: woman arrested at Everard vigil expresses relief after Met chief quits

Patsy Stevenson
Patsy Stevenson: ‘There has to be top-down, radical change.’ Photograph: MI News/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

A student whose photograph went viral after her arrest at a vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard said she “almost cried” when she heard Dame Cressida Dick had resigned as Metropolitan police commissioner.

Patsy Stevenson was pinned to the ground at the vigil on 13 March at Clapham Common, south London, for Everard, who had been kidnapped while walking home before being raped and murdered by the serving Met officer Wayne Couzens.

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