Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police charges four attendees

Four people have been charged by the Met Police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending a Sarah Everard vigil in south London.

Hundreds went to an unofficial event at Clapham Common in March 2021 after Ms Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Met officer Wayne Couzens.Four people are due before Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of gathering when London was in Tier 4 restrictions.

It comes a day after the Met Police was refused permission for a second time to appeal against a High Court ruling that said the force breached the rights of the organisers of the official vigil when it told them they faced £10,000 fines and prosecution if it went ahead. At the High Court in March, Lord Justice Warby and Mr Justice Holgate found the Met's decisions in the run-up to the event were "not in accordance with the law".

Dismissing the appeal bid by the Met on Tuesday, Lord Justice Holroyde said in a court order he could see "no arguable basis on which it can be said that the [High] Court's decision was wrong".Related Topics

I assume the Duchess of Cambridge is getting charged too?

The MetPolice continuing to balls things up

Sensitivity of psychopaths. Johnson's laws apply to everybody or nobody? Met shud revisit Downing St 'enquiries' / apply same 'cold' logic. Oh! And stop employing murderers, rapists and racists. Idiotic prosecutions! SarahEverard murdered by Met PC insulted by MET after death.

Shame they didn't all congregate at downing Street 🤷‍♂️

They are called the filth for good reason

Irony strong here from Met.....

Has gone up to 6

They should’ve just gone to a Downing Street party instead, they’d have been fine then.

Serves them right for answering the questionnaire.

Unbelievable.

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