Male Violence. The stunning shock of really seeing it
Here in Britain, the last few days have been filled with news of first the disappearance, then murder, of marketing executive Sarah Everard, in South West London. The story got even worse, if it could get worse, when it was revealed that the suspect in custody was a serving police officer for the Metropolitan Police. By the weekend it had branched off into a separate avenue of grotesque when the same police force then heavy-handedly enforced a Covid-era ban on public gatherings as a group of women gathered on Clapham Common to hold a vigil for Sarah. A PR disaster for the Met on top of a genuine disaster for the grieving Everard family. The whole story is awful indeed. We know it without even having had to read it. Woman walking alone is accosted by a violent male and abducted. Later her remains turn up in a wood. Or a garden. Or a lake. How many times before, how many times again? Our posturing government, which has decimated funding for women's refuges and for the rehabilitation