Sarah Everard: 33-year-old's body found in large bag and identified by dental records, court hears - Sky News

Sarah Everard's body was identified by her dental records after it was found in a large bag similar to ones used by builders to transport heavy loads, a court has heard.

The details came at the initial hearing for a Metropolitan Police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive.

Wayne Couzens appeared in person before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday following his arrest on Tuesday.

The 48-year-old was remanded in custody and the case will next be heard at the Old Bailey on 16 March.

He wore a grey tracksuit and stood as the charges were read.

Image: Wayne Couzens, 48, has appeared in court

Couzens is charged with kidnapping and killing Ms Everard, who went missing while walking from the nearby Clapham Junction area to her home in Brixton.

Ms Everard, originally from York, had left her friend's house in Leathwaite Road around 9pm on 3 March.

The last known sighting of Ms Everard was captured on a doorbell camera just after 9.30pm showing her walking alone toward Tulse Hill.

Her body was found in woodland near Ashford, Kent, a week later.

Image: Couzens arrives in court

Yesterday, Couzens was taken to hospital for the second time in 48 hours for treatment on a fresh head injury sustained in custody.

He was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, also sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.

In an earlier statement announcing the charges against Couzens, the Met revealed his previous employment history in the force in the "interests of clarity".

Image: Couzens has been charged with kidnap and murder

He joined the force in September 2018, when he worked with a response team that covered Bromley.

He was later posted to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in February 2020.

Here, Couzens is said to have been mostly sent on uniformed patrol duties of diplomatic premises, including a range of embassies.

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Speaking outside New Scotland Yard on Friday, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave paid tribute to Ms Everard's family and friends for their "fortitude and forbearance through what can only have been the most intensely difficult few days".

He added: "Our thoughts remain with them as this matter progresses."

Ms Everard's death has prompted an outpouring of grief from the public, with many women and girls sharing stories online of their own traumatic experiences.

A vigil planned by Reclaim These Streets in Clapham on Saturday evening has been cancelled following discussions with police.

Instead, organisers said a virtual gathering would be arranged.

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Sarah Everard: Police officer Wayne Couzens remanded in custody over Sarah Everard kidnap and murder - Sky News

Sarah Everard's body was identified by her dental records after it was found in a large bag similar to ones used by builders to transport heavy loads, a court has heard.

The details came at the initial hearing for a Metropolitan Police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive.

Wayne Couzens appeared in person before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday following his arrest on Tuesday.

The 48-year-old was remanded in custody and the case will next be heard at the Old Bailey on 16 March.

He wore a grey tracksuit and stood as the charges were read.

Image: Wayne Couzens, 48, has appeared in court

Couzens is charged with kidnapping and killing Ms Everard, who went missing while walking from the nearby Clapham Junction area to her home in Brixton.

Ms Everard, originally from York, had left her friend's house in Leathwaite Road around 9pm on 3 March.

The last known sighting of Ms Everard was captured on a doorbell camera just after 9.30pm showing her walking alone toward Tulse Hill.

Her body was found in woodland near Ashford, Kent, a week later.

Image: Couzens arrives in court

Yesterday, Couzens was taken to hospital for the second time in 48 hours for treatment on a fresh head injury sustained in custody.

He was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, also sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.

In an earlier statement announcing the charges against Couzens, the Met revealed his previous employment history in the force in the "interests of clarity".

Image: Couzens has been charged with kidnap and murder

He joined the force in September 2018, when he worked with a response team that covered Bromley.

He was later posted to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in February 2020.

Here, Couzens is said to have been mostly sent on uniformed patrol duties of diplomatic premises, including a range of embassies.

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Speaking outside New Scotland Yard on Friday, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave paid tribute to Ms Everard's family and friends for their "fortitude and forbearance through what can only have been the most intensely difficult few days".

He added: "Our thoughts remain with them as this matter progresses."

Ms Everard's death has prompted an outpouring of grief from the public, with many women and girls sharing stories online of their own traumatic experiences.

A vigil planned by Reclaim These Streets in Clapham on Saturday evening has been cancelled following discussions with police.

Instead, organisers said a virtual gathering would be arranged.

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Sarah Everard: Vigil for 33-year-old in south London cancelled - BBC News

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A vigil planned for Sarah Everard in south London will not take place, organisers have confirmed.

Reclaim These Streets had planned to hold the vigil on Clapham Common on Saturday evening, near to where the 33-year-old was last seen alive.

But on Friday, a High Court judge refused to intervene in the group's legal challenge on the right to gather to protest during Covid restrictions.

Similar events have also been cancelled in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Birmingham.

The Reclaim These Streets group said it had attempted to work with the Metropolitan Police to ensure the vigil could proceed safely, but accused the force of failing to "constructively engage".

Details would instead be announced later for a virtual gathering, organisers said.

Ms Everard's disappearance, when she was walking home along a main road in Clapham on 3 March, has prompted a public debate on women's safety.

Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court court charged with her kidnap and murder.

• How many attacks on women are there?
• Sarah Everard murder case: What happens next?

'Massive individual risk'

Reclaims These Streets tweeted that the group had "repeatedly tried to find a way forward for the event", including staggering start times and splitting the event into time slots, but the Met Police had been "unwilling to commit to anything".

Anna Birley, an organiser of Reclaim These Streets, said holding the vigil would have put the group at "massive individual risk" as well as risking women receiving fixed-penalty notices.

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "All the women across the country who are seeking to organise their own events too are at risk of criminal prosecutions from the Serious Crimes Act, which is what we've been threatened with.

"The inability of Scotland Yard to constructively engage with us means we can't be confident they're going to police the event in a way that's Covid safe."

Caitlin Prowle, another organiser, said they did not want to end up in a situation where they were having to raise funds to pay fines.

The group said it would "strongly encourage" people not to gather at Clapham Common, adding that doing so might put people "legally at risk".

It said it would now seek to fundraise £320,000 for women's causes - £10,000 for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled.

A fundraising page set up on Saturday morning by the group has already raised more than £50,000 in around three hours.

Vigils had been planned across the UK, but two in Edinburgh had already been called off, while one planned for Cardiff will now move online.

However, Sisters Uncut, which campaigns to prevent violence against women, said it would still be attending the event at Clapham.

For almost a year the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and public grasping for answers.

Gatherings in public are generally banned but, at the same time, the rules recognise there can be reasonable excuses to be outside.

The problem is that the law doesn't specify whether a demonstration on a major issue of public importance - such as this vigil - is one of those excuses or not.

Police officers must enforce the lockdown laws and they have been under pressure from ministers to do more to reduce the risk of the virus spreading.

But they also know that the right to protest is enshrined in the Human Rights Act, a cornerstone of our complex constitution.

That means they can't just impose a blanket ban on all protests under the coronavirus restrictions - and the judge in Friday's case urged both sides to keep talking.

In the absence of further legal clarity, the police maintained their position that the balance came down in favour of preventing a gathering, rather than allowing an exception to mark a very exceptional and tragic death.

In the ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Holgate refused an application by Reclaim These Streets for the High Court to make "an interim declaration" that any ban on outdoor gatherings under Covid rules was "subject to the right to protest".

The judge also refused to make a declaration that an alleged policy by the Met Police of "prohibiting all protests, irrespective of the specific circumstances" was unlawful.

Labour's Harriet Harman, who chairs the Joint Committee on Human Rights, said the law on freedom of association amid the coronavirus pandemic should be clarified.

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have said previously that the law on this should be made clearer.

"The relationship between the Human Rights Act and its protection of freedom of association and the new Covid regulations has not been clearly spelt out.

"The police's response to do a blanket ban, to say we can treat everybody equally by stopping all freedom of associations, is not the right way to go about it."

Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said the Met's decision to "refuse to constructively engage" with Reclaim These Streets was "deeply wrong", adding: "Women should not face arrest for showing solidarity."

Labour MP Apsana Begum said the government was proposing to strengthen its powers on protests via the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill on Monday.

"Be under no illusion - our fundamental right to protest is under attack," she tweeted.

Liberal Democrats deputy leader Daisy Cooper tweeted: "It is the Govt's responsibility to ensure people can protest safely."

Senior Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who had previously said she asked Home Secretary Priti Patel to "step in" and allow the vigil to go ahead, said she hoped people would now take the advice of organisers to gather virtually instead.

She told BBC Breakfast: "It is important that women come together. We can do that virtually and recognise the ongoing issue there is with violence against women and girls, perpetrated by men, but do it in a Covid-safe way."

What are the rules on gatherings in England?

• Under the current lockdown rules two people can meet for recreation outside, which can include "coffee on a bench"
• From 29 March people will be allowed to meet outdoors, either with one other household or within the "rule of six"
• Police can break up illegal gatherings and issue fines of £10,000 to someone holding a gathering of more than 30 people
• During last year's restrictions, when Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown demonstrations took place, police took a hands-off approach to protests

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Sarah Everard: Vigil for 33-year-old in south London cancelled - BBC News

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A vigil planned for Sarah Everard in south London will not take place, organisers have confirmed.

Reclaim These Streets had planned to hold the vigil on Clapham Common on Saturday evening, near to where the 33-year-old was last seen alive.

On Friday, a High Court judge refused to intervene in the group's legal challenge over the right to gather for a protest during Covid restrictions.

Similar events have also been cancelled in Edinburgh and Cardiff.

Ms Everard's disappearance, when she was walking home along a main road in Clapham on 3 March, has prompted a public debate on women's safety.

The Metropolitan Police has urged people to find a "lawful and safer way" to express their view on the issue.

On Friday, serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of Ms Everard.

• How many attacks on women are there?
• Sarah Everard murder case: What happens next?

'Massive individual risk'

Anna Birley, an organiser of Reclaim These Streets, said they did not want to put women at risk of fixed-penalty notices.

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "sadly" the vigil will not go ahead because "we don't in good faith think that we can".

"In part because of the massive individual risk that gives us as organisers and that we don't want to be putting women at risk of fixed-penalty notices.

"All the women across the country who are seeking to organise their own events too are at risk of criminal prosecutions from the Serious Crimes Act, which is what we've been threatened with.

"The inability of Scotland Yard to constructively engage with us means we can't be confident they're going to police the event in a way that's Covid safe."

Reclaims These Streets tweeted that the group had "repeatedly tried to find a way forward for the event", including staggering start times and splitting the event into time slots, but the Met Police had been "unwilling to commit to anything".

It said it would now seek to fundraise £320,000 for women's causes - £10,000 for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled.

The group said it would "strongly encourage" people not to gather at Clapham Common, adding that doing so might put people at "legally at risk".

Details of a virtual gathering will be announced later today, it added.

Vigils had been planned across the UK, but two in Edinburgh had already been called off, while one planned for Cardiff will now move "entirely online.

For almost a year the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and public grasping for answers.

Gatherings in public are generally banned but, at the same time, the rules recognise there can be reasonable excuses to be outside.

The problem is that the law doesn't specify whether a demonstration on a major issue of public importance - such as this vigil - is one of those excuses or not.

Police officers must enforce the lockdown laws and they have been under pressure from ministers to do more to reduce the risk of the virus spreading.

But they also know that the right to protest is enshrined in the Human Rights Act, a cornerstone of our complex constitution.

That means they can't just impose a blanket ban on all protests under the coronavirus restrictions - and the judge in Friday's case urged both sides to keep talking.

In the absence of further legal clarity, the police maintained their position that the balance came down in favour of preventing a gathering, rather than allowing an exception to mark a very exceptional and tragic death.

In the ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Holgate refused an application by Reclaim These Streets for the High Court to make "an interim declaration" that any ban on outdoor gatherings under Covid rules was "subject to the right to protest".

The judge also refused to make a declaration that an alleged policy by the Met Police of "prohibiting all protests, irrespective of the specific circumstances" was unlawful.

Labour's Harriet Harman, who chairs the Joint Committee on Human Rights, said the law on freedom of association amid the coronavirus pandemic should be clarified.

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have said previously that the law on this should be made clearer.

"The relationship between the Human Rights Act and its protection of freedom of association and the new Covid regulations has not been clearly spelt out.

"The police's response to do a blanket ban, to say we can treat everybody equally by stopping all freedom of associations, is not the right way to go about it."

Senior Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who had previously said she asked Home Secretary Priti Patel to "step in" and allow the vigil to go ahead, said she hoped people would now take the advice of organisers to gather virtually instead.

She told BBC Breakfast: "It is important that women come together. We can do that virtually and recognise the ongoing issue there is with violence against women and girls, perpetrated by men, but do it in a Covid-safe way."

Ms Everard's body was found in woodland in Kent more than a week after she was last spotted on 3 March.

Mr Couzens, 48, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday charged with her murder.

What are the rules on gatherings in England?

• Under the current lockdown rules two people can meet for recreation outside, which can include "coffee on a bench"
• From 29 March people will be allowed to meet outdoors, either with one other household or within the "rule of six"
• Police can break up illegal gatherings and issue fines of £10,000 to someone holding a gathering of more than 30 people
• During last year's restrictions, when Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown demonstrations took place, police took a hands-off approach to protests

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Police launch desperate hunt for two boys, 12 and 16, who vanished in Middlesbrough homes... - The Sun

POLICE have launched a desperate hunt for two boys who vanished from their Middlesbrough homes.

James Hunter 12, and Georgie Dawson, 16, were both reported missing on Friday, and are believed to be together.

James Hunter 12, was last seen at 2pm on FridayCredit: Cleveland Police

Georgie Dawson, 16, is believed to wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and black trainersCredit: Cleveland Police

James was last seen at 2pm on Friday at his home address in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough.  

He is described as being white, 4’3” tall, slim, and has dark brown hair and brown eyes.  

He was wearing black Adidas tracksuit bottoms, a red T-shirt, and a black Nike puffer jacket.

Police believe James is with Georgie in the Middlesbrough area.

Georgie is described as being white, 5’8” tall, of slim build and has brown hair and blue eyes. 

He is believed to wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and black trainers (other clothes unknown).

Anyone who may have any information on the children’s whereabouts are being asked to phone Cleveland Police on 101 quoting reference 038843.

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2021-03-13 08:20:19Z
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Sarah Everard vigil: Clapham event cancelled after talks with police, organisers say - Sky News

A vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham this evening has been cancelled following discussions with police.

Reclaim These Streets tweeted: "We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.

"Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled."

Image: Ms Everard went missing in Clapham last week

In the statement they said: "We have been very disappointed that given the many opportunities to engage with organisers constructively, the Metropolitan Police have been unwilling to commit to anything.

"It remains our view that with the appropriate mutually agreed measures in place, this evening's vigil on Clapham Common would have been safe and in line with restrictions and safety regulations."

Instead of tonight's event, organisers said that a virtual gathering would be arranged.

Update: We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.

Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled. https://t.co/ohTXXZONeH pic.twitter.com/NZZk3taGcw

— Reclaim These Streets (@ReclaimTS) March 13, 2021

Before the discussions with police concluded, several people said they would go to Clapham Common today to commemorate Ms Everard regardless of the outcome - but this is now being advised against by Reclaim These Streets.

Their statement added: "As the event has now been cancelled, we would strongly encourage people not to gather this evening on Clapham Common.

"Despite the court judgement, the feedback from police is that doing so may place yourself legally at risk."

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Flowers laid to remember Sarah Everard

Yesterday it was announced that a serving Metropolitan Police officer had been charged with kidnapping and murdering Ms Everard, who went missing in south London last week.

Wayne Couzens will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court later this morning.

The 48-year-old was taken to hospital on Friday for a second time in 48 hours for treatment on a fresh head injury sustained in custody.

A Met Police spokesman said: "He was being monitored by officers and received immediate first aid. He was discharged the same day and returned to custody."

Couzens was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, which was sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.

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Police announce man charged in Everard case

Meanwhile, a woman in her 30s who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on bail.

She is due to return to a police station in mid-April.

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2021-03-13 08:15:00Z
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Sarah Everard vigil: Clapham event cancelled after talks with police, organisers say - Sky News

A vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham this evening has been cancelled following discussions with police.

Reclaim These Streets tweeted: "We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.

"Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled."

Update: We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.

Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled. https://t.co/ohTXXZONeH pic.twitter.com/NZZk3taGcw

— Reclaim These Streets (@ReclaimTS) March 13, 2021

In the statement they said: "We have been very disappointed that given the many opportunities to engage with organisers constructively, the Metropolitan Police have been unwilling to commit to anything.

"It remains our view that with the appropriate mutually agreed measures in place, this evening's vigil on Clapham Common would have been safe and in line with restrictions and safety regulations."

Instead of tonight's event, organisers said that a virtual gathering would be arranged.

Earlier, several people said they would still go to Clapham Common today to commemorate Ms Everard - even though this is now being advised against by Reclaim These Streets.

Their statement added: "As the event has now been cancelled, we would strongly encourage people not to gather this evening on Clapham Common.

Image: Ms Everard went missing in Clapham last week

"Despite the court judgement, the feedback from police is that doing so may place yourself legally at risk."

Yesterday it was announced that a serving Metropolitan Police officer had been charged with kidnapping and murdering Ms Everard, who went missing in south London last week.

Wayne Couzens will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court later this morning.

The 48-year-old was taken to hospital on Friday for a second time in 48 hours for treatment on a fresh head injury sustained in custody.

A Met Police spokesman said: "He was being monitored by officers and received immediate first aid. He was discharged the same day and returned to custody."

Couzens was previously treated in hospital for a separate head wound on Thursday, which was sustained in custody when he was alone in his cell.

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Assistant Commissioner of Met Police Nick Ephgrave makes announcement outside Scotland Yard.

Meanwhile, a woman in her 30s who was previously arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on bail.

She is due to return to a police station in mid-April.

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