Labour MP Stella Creasy questioned why the measure was decided upon when it bears no relation to the circumstances of Everard’s murder. “The idea that putting plain-clothes police officers in nightclubs is going to solve this problem doesn’t recognise that women get abused, assaulted, and intimidated in all sorts of places,” she told Radio 4 earlier today (March 16).
33-year-old Everard went missing on March 3 while walking home to Brixton from a friend’s house in Clapham. The journey should have taken her 50 minutes – the last known sighting puts her just 20 minutes away from home before she was kidnapped. Her body was formally identified on Friday (March 12); 48-year-old Met police officer Wayne Couzens has been charged with her murder.