Re: Sarah Everard

Excuse me ! I find your tone aggressive and your question not worthy of an answer . Please don’t use that old chestnut of a line to find fault with what I said .

Re: Sarah Everard

It's an unsafe area at night for both men and women. Well known for crime. She was walking from Leathwaite Road to Brixton where she lived. I don't think they have CCTV of her being on the common itself. Just on the A road. Looking at the map the straightest route between the two points would have been on the road.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south...worth-16588873

I think that they knew each other or he knew her or of her. Must have been stalking her.

Re: Sarah Everard

Maybe look to your own victim-blaming words first.

Re: Sarah Everard

It's not unreasonable to ask why she was visiting a friend's house during lockdown. That's why she was walking home at 9pm. It could have given the police suspect a reason to stop her. I don't think this incident would have happened if we did not have lockdown in place. It's not that she needed the bubble support of her friend when her own boyfriend lived close to her. Of course none of these questions are being posed because of the furore.

Re: Sarah Everard

Maybe he approached her as a police officer and she felt safe getting into his car. Such a tragedy....poor family too.

Re: Sarah Everard

Obviously not all women think like that all the time Suedonim, otherwise they wouldn't risk putting themselves in great danger.
And it may surprise you to learn, that most men find members of the opposite sex very attractive and might express this through a whistle or comment. Not necessarily harassment, only to the more sensitive or paranoid. I must add though, that there will always be one or two blokes who are mentally deranged freaks and give all men a bad name....

Re: Sarah Everard

I know we shouldn't speculate but I wondered the same thing, did a 'police officer' see a young woman out alone at night during lockdown and use that to question her, offer her a lift home having given a false level of security.

I would never accept a lift from a stranger but meeting a police officer and someone making you feel you have done something wrong even if you haven't can make you behave differently and drop your guard.

Re: Sarah Everard

I don't understand why men think this behaviour is ok though? I have been reading stories of this kind of thing happening to women - who ignore it, and it escalates into sometimes quite aggressive behaviour from the man, because he feels that his whistle or comment should have been appreciated with a response like a smile, not ignored.

Re: Sarah Everard

It certainly didn't help matters did it Suedonim?
I tend to agree with Annie, and I think they probably knew each other. Perhaps an infatuation by the policeman, or a previous affair...Could that be why the police went straight to him as a suspect. I think the flashing incident was just a smokescreen.

Re: Sarah Everard

Very rare in my experience Pixie (not that I go around whistling at girls anymore Mrs Fox would have my guts for garters)
In the pit village where I grew up, the girls were worse than the boys, and would give as much as they got....In fact......Some were quite fearsome!.. Most of the time I would consider it just banter, the same as you see on the forum occasionally.