The Metropolitan Police will pay £10,000 to a woman who was arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in Clapham, her solicitors have said. Jennifer Edmunds was detained overnight and charged with breaching Covid restrictions at the Clapham Common vigil for Ms Everard on 13 March 2021. Charges against her were dropped 15 months later and Ms Edmunds went on to sue the force for breaching her human rights, false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecutions.
The Met will pay £10,000 to a woman who was arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in Clapham , her solicitors have said. Jennifer Edmunds was detained overnight and charged with breaching Covid restrictions at the Clapham Common vigil for Ms Everard on 13 March 2021. Charges against her were dropped 15 months later and Ms Edmunds went on to sue the force for breaching her human rights , false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecutions .
The legal settlement was reached on February 5 this year after proceedings issued at Mayor's and City of London Court, they added.Ms Edmunds said she will split the damages with pro-Palestine protesters "who have also been victims of police".She said following the settlement: “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 chang
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