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Tristan Kirk

Sarah Everard vigil: Fifth person cleared of breaking Covid restrictions

A fifth person who faced a Met Police prosecution after attending the vigil for Sarah Everard will be cleared of wrongdoing as the case against him is abandoned by prosecutors.

Ben Wheeler, 22, was accused of breaching Covid regulations on March 13 last year, when he joined a crowd of people at the bandstand in Clapham Common.

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