Sarah Everard vigil

Sarnia

Sarah's trial is scheduled for the autumn. Will it be too much to ask that the country can show some dignity and compassion to Sarah's memory and her family and friends? Put the 'Kill The Bill' placards away, observe the Covid restrictions and let the police get on with their job.

I think things seem to have calmed down now. However anxiety and criticism of the Bill remain relevant for a variety of reasons.

Over the last year laws/ rules have varied in their allowance of what people can and cannot do, and so dependent on the levels of lockdown at the time in which various protests have been held , so to has the level/ style if policing those events altered.

The thing is, if all goes well, the issue of gatherings/protests and public health dangers will not be relevant before too long so the issues will be different. In an ideal world if people believe are being listened to, they don’t need to go on a march or demonstrate do they? The real issue is not to keep replaying and debating what happened last weekend but to see what what it should look like moving forward.

Moving forward it should be far tougher sentencing for domestic violence , rape and assault, with all rape cases going to trial not just those the CPS see as ‘ winnable ‘so as to improve their stats. Also far,far more women judges to balance out the surplus of elderly out of touch ms,e judges that seem to proliferate.

Nanna58

Moving forward it should be far tougher sentencing for domestic violence , rape and assault, with all rape cases going to trial not just those the CPS see as ‘ winnable ‘so as to improve their stats. Also far,far more women judges to balance out the surplus of elderly out of touch ms,e judges that seem to proliferate.

I would have a pool of specially trained judges to hear rape cases.

Ben started standing up to their friends when sexism/verbal assault started.

That they’d stop being afraid of looking weak.

It’s not all men. But it is men

Men
Not Ben

Well, probably Ben too

Like this