Amid the outpouring of grief over the death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard – murdered in 2021 by off duty police officer Wayne Couzens – a sense of momentum began to build.
Vigils, demonstrations and wipe-out media coverage – there was a sense that time to address systemic misogyny within our police forces (misogyny which had, for far too long, been written off as a case of “just a few bad apples”), as well as the wider societal issue of violence against women and girls, was finally here.
