Sarah Everard inquiry chief in race to become first female Oxford chancellor

Inquiry chairwoman Lady Elish Angiolini after making a statement after the first report from the Angiolini Inquiry into Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens is published, at the Ashworth Centre in London. Picture date: Thursday February 29, 2024. - (PA Archive)

The senior lawyer who led the inquiry into the murder of Sarah Everard is one step closer in the race to become the first female chancellor of Oxford University.

Lady Elish Angiolini, principal of St Hugh’s College in Oxford, chairwoman of the inquiry into Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens and Scotland’s former Lord Advocate, and Baroness Jan Royall, principal of Somerville College in Oxford, are among the five candidates still in the running for the historic position.