The Latest Breaking News from Wayne Couzens

New data reveals a 34 per cent increase in sexual conduct allegations involving police officers

Wayne Couzens abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in March 2021 and was given a whole-life order later that year

In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the norm, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor of London’s VAWG Board

She warned of an ‘epidemic of violence against women and girls’

COMMENT: Women still feel unsafe on British streets, an inquiry has found – and is it any wonder when nobody takes us seriously, asks Victoria Richards

Editorial: The Angiolini inquiry and a new report on Hillsborough make the need for new laws and higher standards in police forces brutally clear

Susan Everard says she ‘rages’ against the killing by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens

The latest report from the Angiolini Inquiry found that there no record of how many women were raped by strangers in England and Wales last year.