Sarah Everard: Missing 33-year old in South London

No, it has not yet been confirmed. I'm basing it on the fact that she vanished from Poynders Road with no other CCTV footage of her other than from a doorbell camera, meaning they couldn't piece together her movements (bn foot). The fact that this PC's car has been impounded by investigators, that he's now being questioned on suspicion of murder.

I recall the Chris Halliwell (a taxi driver) murders and how he had picked up one of his victims as she left a club/bar. CCTV had followed her down a street until she had vanished.

I don't think they knew eachother, I think that the PC must have stopped her (either in uniform or not), offered her a lift and drove off.

It's astonishing he was a serving Met officer. There surely must have been warning signs as to his character.

Hopefully this suspicious disappearance won't be a repeat of the Claudia Lawrence situation.

Police have found a body. Horrific news.

For a father-of-two and police officer to abduct a woman from London, drive her to Kent, kill her and bury her in the woods... unfathomable

How can you live with that? Let alone carry out such an act.

It really is unspeakably bad. The calculation that must have gone into it. No words really.

For a father-of-two and police officer to abduct a woman from London, drive her to Kent, kill her and bury her in the woods... unfathomable

How can you live with that? Let alone carry out such an act.

Encouraging to see men tweeting this evening about how they can make the streets safer for women. So often these things turn into a partial blame game about how women need to be more careful, it's our fault for being provocative or too willing to be out at night on our own, etc.

I read through that and definitely learnt a few things from it. It's always a real eye opener for me that women have to take so many precautions over things I don't blink twice over.

When I was at uni I worked in retail, very female dominated including a lot of young girls in their first job. I was one of the department supervisors often on the closing shift and trying to get everyone home safely was a constant worry. Especially in winter or on Thursdays when we closed at 8pm. I lost count of how many times I had to wait behind with someone until their lift arrived or walk them to the bus/train station because they didn't feel safe. It was absolutely horrifying that they could feel like this by simply leaving their workplace.

I read through that and definitely learnt a few things from it. It's always a real eye opener for me that women have to take so many precautions over things I don't blink twice over.

When I was at uni I worked in retail, very female dominated including a lot of young girls in their first job. I was one of the department supervisors often on the closing shift and trying to get everyone home safely was a constant worry. Especially in winter or on Thursdays when we closed at 8pm. I lost count of how many times I had to wait behind with someone until their lift arrived or walk them to the bus/train station because they didn't feel safe. It was absolutely horrifying that they could feel like this by simply leaving their workplace.

Women are less risk averse than when I was young.

Far fewer women are attacked down dark alleys and as a result more women walk or run alone in remote locations.

There has been a huge change in criminal behaviour since DNA testing came in. Basically before the Pitchfork case in 1986, the modus operandi of any sex attacker was based on escape. If the attacker was neither caught nor identified at the scene, the crime was virtually insoluble.

The Yorkshire Ripper was only caught at the scene immediately prior to an attack because he had false number plates.

Now sex attackers assume they will be identifiable and their modus operandi is geared around creating an ambiguity. The last thing an attacker wants is to commit a crime in a location that no jury would believe was the location of a lovers’ tryst.

I guess this would make this case an outlier in that regard then?

It seems that for better or worse now there are less SA convictions than there used to be. Partly down to the changing nature of the act and the ensuing difficulty of pinning mens rea beyond reasonable doubt.

It was absolutely horrifying that they could feel like this by simply leaving their workplace.