Following the murder of Sarah Everard in 2021, a vigil held at Clapham Common descended into chaos as officers tried to break it up.
The Metropolitan Police has paid out £10,000 to a woman arrested at a vigil for Sarah Everard. Jennifer Edmunds was arrested on 13 March, 2021, as she mourned Everard, who had died at the hands of policeman Wayne Couzens. At the vigil for the 33-year-old victim, Met officers clashed with crowds due to COVID rules and arrested a number of people.
Photographs circulated of women being handcuffed on the ground, sparking anger. Ms Edmunds said: 'While I am relieved for this to finally be over, three years after Sarah Everard's death, and almost three years after I was threatened with criminal charges for exercising my inalienable right to protest her murder, in that time I have also seen the state clamp down yet further on our collective freedom to assemble and demand change.
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