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Tristan Kirk

Met officers justify breaking up Sarah Everard vigil as it became ‘anti-police protest’

Crowds at the vigil in memory of Sarah Everard on Clapham Common (Victoria Jones/PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Met Police officers started arresting attendees at the vigil for Sarah Everard when they believed it had become an “anti-police protest” and say they feared violent attack, it has been revealed.

Six people are being prosecuted by Scotland Yard over the incident on March 13, 2021, when a large group of people gathered at the bandstand on Clapham Common in the wake of Ms Everard’s abduction, rape and murder by serving Met officer Wayne Couzens.

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