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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Alexandra Topping

Met faces legal action after refusing to police ‘March of the Mummies’

Protesters demonstrate outside Scotland Yard over  the police handling of  the Sarah Everard vigil in March 2021
Protesters demonstrate in March 2021 outside Scotland Yard over the police handling of the Sarah Everard vigil. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

The Metropolitan police are facing legal action after they refused to police a major protest in central London by mothers against the cost of childcare, weeks before it was scheduled to take place.

Campaigners accused the Met of “again trying to prevent women from organising”, six months after a court found it breached the rights of women trying to organise following the murder of Sarah Everard.

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