Johnson concerned by Sarah Everard vigil incidents

Police officers handcuffed women and removed them from the gathering on Clapham Common, south London on Saturday.

Boris Johnson is deeply concerned by the footage showing police officer detaining women at Saturday’s vigil to remember Sarah Everard who went missing while walking home from a friend’s house on 3 March., and will chair a meeting of the crime and justice taskforce later to discuss ways to protect women.

Police later found remnants of her in woodland in Kent and Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with the 33-year-old’s kidnap and murder.

Metropolitan Police’s Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick’s officers were accused of oppressing women, and politicians waded in calling for her resignation.

The organisers of Reclaim said these streets had called off the vigil saying the police had failed to constructively engage through a lack of covid-safe marshalling and risk of being manhandled, fined, and arrested by officers and misrepresented a High Court ruling on Friday, when a judge refused to say the event would be permitted under coronavirus regulations.