UK Prosecution of Protesters Who Attended Sarah Everard Vigil Halted

UK Prosecution of Protesters Who Attended Sarah Everard Vigil Halted
Police officers form a cordon as a crowd turn on their phone torches at a vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common, south London, on March 13, 2021. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images
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Six protesters who broke Britain’s lockdown laws to attend a vigil for Sarah Everard—who was abducted, raped, and murdered by a serving police officer in March 2021—will not face trial after the Crown Prosecution Service discontinued the case.

The vigil was originally organised by Reclaim These Streets to protest at violence against women after Everard’s body was discovered in a pond in a wood in Kent a week after she disappeared after walking home from a friend’s home near Clapham Common in south London after dark.

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