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RIP Sarah Everard, who went missing from Brixton in March 2021

MickiQ said:
For a woman who's managed to get to the position she has Cressida Dick seems to have a talent for putting her foot in her mouth. Her spouting on this morning about how rare serial killers are was a masterpiece in being insensitive. Yes she right, they are a miniscule percentage of the population and your chances of dying at the hands of one are indeed miniscule.
Yet she still manages to miss the point, This guy is likely to be the only potential serial killer who is a cop out there but there aren't supposed to be any. The public have a very reasonable expectation that the vetting process would weed them out. This isn't in the same league as nicking a box of donuts. The fact that he is probably the only one who got through is irrelevant. If there was one, there is no way of being sure there aren't others.
The damage this will do to public confidence in the Met (and every other force for that matter) is incalcuable and will have an effect for years to come.
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She didn’t say that. She said it was incredibly rare to be abducted from the streets of London and murdered. There was no mention of serial killers. And everyone needs to remember that the police officer has not been convicted.
 
Winot said:
The reports I’ve heard are that the police going house to house said that. I haven’t heard that CD said it personally. Pretty awful if she did.
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This was actually happening, according to my grand daughter's mum - she lives in the area and said she felt terrified about the whole situation, especially as she has a young daughter too. The police were knocking and telling people to stay in, as well as looking for potential witnesses.
 
I was talking to my friend last night and she said the thing that's got to her most is that the photo of him, the one with the beard, he looks just like the kind of men she's been meeting for walks all this past year from online dating. The habitual thing of give me a text let me know you're ok which we do every time she's met one of these, we never say out loud why it is we do that. In her mind i suppose murderers didn't previously look just like the sort of smiley bearded men in check shirts that she goes for.
 
Police are apparently doing extensive searches in and around Dover where Couzens family is from - there's miles of old tunnels in the cliffs
 
trashpony said:
Police are apparently doing extensive searches in and around Dover where Couzens family is from - there's miles of old tunnels in the cliffs
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I wonder if that's for further evidence in respect of Sarah Everard's disappearance, or something else i.e. other offences.
 
Ms T said:
She didn’t say that. She said it was incredibly rare to be abducted from the streets of London and murdered. There was no mention of serial killers. And everyone needs to remember that the police officer has not been convicted.
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Yeh we have the formality of the trial to go through yet and having just woken up not sure he's been charged even
 
Yossarian said:
Is allowing an officer accused of a sex crime to remain on duty with a gun and the power to detain people official Met policy, or the result of a fuck-up? Either way, whoever's responsible should be fired and charged in connection with their gross negligence.
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The police authority has quite a wide discretion, and it'd depend on all the circumstances e.g. strength of prima facie case against them, whether they were on duty/in uniform etc. But, usually they'd be expected to consider redeployment before suspension (since the latter has to be on full pay); for instance to a desk job that's not public facing. Don't know what happened in this case.
 
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Rutita1 said:
Oh god that is awful. If it turns out she is right WTAF and if she's wrong and it's coincidence, that poor woman. So much trauma.
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Given there's screenshots in which this woman (who seems keen to claim credit for the bus CCTV breakthrough) previously described her attacker as a black man (whom she seems to 'know' targets blondes and is part of a Kent based abduction gang that uses specially equipped crime cars) I suspect the two aren't linked.
 
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Speculators may wish to go to the websleuth boards where there's 400 pages of posts to get through, including a poster who appears to live at the back of the house being searched. There'some interesting stuff that I won't start repeating here but it seems reporters are getting at least some of the stories from there.
 
Athos said:
The police authority has quite a wide discretion, and it'd depend on all the circumstances e.g. strength of prima facie case against them, endure they were on duty/in uniform etc. But, usually they'd be expected to consider redeployment before suspension (since the latter has to be on full pay); for instance to a desk job that's not public facing. Don't know what happened in this case.
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Whether they were on duty at the time should obviously not come into it. If accused of such a serious offence at work or not should mean suspencion whilst investigated. That's so blatantly obvious, I wonder if I've missed something.

The on duty at the time bit, is only relevant re conviction and stiffer sentence IMO.
 
Is there something in the news about this guy having been identified as a suspect in the flashing incident before the kidnapping, or is everyone just assuming that's the case?
 
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