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A Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged with the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who was last seen on 3 March as she walked home from Clapham to Brixton. A mass vigil on Clapham Common was called off after the High Court declined to interfere with a police ban on the event in accord with coronavirus regulations. The Duchess of Cambridge came alone and left some daffodils at the bandstand. Women who stayed in their hundreds saw police struggle with women who refused to leave the bandstand. There were four arrests and pictures of policemen subduing one of them, Patsy Stevenson, on the floor fed a widespread anger against the police. Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said: ‘What has happened makes me more determined, not less, to lead my organisation.’ Murray Walker, the Formula 1 commentator, died aged 97.
Labour said it would oppose at second reading the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which would give police powers to limit the duration of static demonstrations, as they can do already with marches.
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