Taking women’s safety seriously is more than outrage at murder
Oct 08, 2021
3 minutes
Catherine Bennett
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Hanna Barczyk/Purple Rain
After the heartbreaking family statements and accounts of Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder, it seemed unlikely a judicial summing up could exacerbate the distress. But somehow the judge achieved it.
Everard was, Lord Justice Fulford said, “a wholly blameless victim”. Ah. The other sort – the woman who contributes to her own death at the hands of a pitiless stranger – evidently lives on in the mind of the senior
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