Sarah Everard is a name I wish I didn’t know. Yet I know her name, and you know her name, and a whole generation knows her name, because when she disappeared, a year ago today, she became a story that made headlines.
Sarah Everard made headlines because she was young, pretty, white, middle class, and she was “only” walking home, all of which made her the “perfect victim”. Sarah Everard made headlines because what unfolded was an elaborate, escalating tale of horror, laced with a devastating abuse of power. Sarah Everard made headlines because her murder spoke directly to our darkest of fears; we would have got in that police car, we whispered to each other, stunned, sickened.
