UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London, Clapham Common, 3 March 2021 MEDIA THREAD *NO DISCUSSION*

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Search for Sarah Everard's mobile continues: Police divers resume 48-hour underwater hunt | Daily Mail Online

17 March 2021

Police divers, who have already spent 48 hours looking in a Kent stream for evidence including Sarah Everard's phone, have renewed their underwater hunt today as the search of the 300-metre stretch continued for a third day.

Officers in Sandwich Kent have focused on a 50-metre portion of Sandwich's Delf Stream near to the town's Ropewalk area.

Forensic officers have been concentrating on a specific area in the tourist spot for three days, meticulously rooting through bins, lifting stones and drains for the investigation.

Then yesterday they delved into the network of drains systems snaking underneath the 4,500-population Medieval town.

But the stream has been of constant interest, with neighbouring Devon and Cornwall Police even providing divers to bolster numbers at one point.

 

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Police trawl through woods in hunt for Sarah Everard’s mobile

17 March 2021

Detectives investigating the murder of Sarah Everard were today continuing to trawl through woodland and drains in the hunt for her missing mobile phone.


Officers are carrying out fingertip searches in Sandwich, Kent, after divers found a gold necklace they have taken away for examination.

The searches came ahead of the opening of the inquest into the death of Ms Everard due to take place tomorrow.

Other areas being searched included public toilets in a car park in Sandwich.

They are also trawling through hours of CCTV footage from the Ropewalk area which has been taped off.

 

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Police cordon off builders' yard containing skip in Sarah Everard search | Daily Mail Online

17 March 2021

Police investigating the murder of Sarah Everard have cordoned off an abandoned builders' yard in Kent.

Officers have taped up the area in Sandwich, which contains a concrete mixing machine, a skip as well as a green lorry box.

The wasteland is not far from the the areas they have been already searching for any evidence, including Miss Everard's missing phone.

It came as divers renewed their underwater hunt today as the search of the 300-metre Delf Stream continued for a third day.

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Sandwich “builders’ yard”


Abandoned builders' yard taped off in Sarah investigation

17 March 2021

But today while searches elsewhere continued focus shifted to the rail-side site off Woodensborough Road, which contains a cement mixer and container in amongst other discarded machinery.

The area being searched is known as The Butts, which includes a cricket club, play area and skate park with a connecting footpath. It's adjacent to both the Rope Walkand the Co-op car park which have also been cordoned off in previous days.



Sarah Everard: Police cordon off Kent builders' yard containing skip in search for evidence | Daily Mail Online

17 March 2021

cene of crime officers today took away bags of items - including scissors and what appeared to be a long tool handle - from areas in Kent where they were investigating Sarah Everard's murder.

The forensic experts, dressed in blue protective suits, could be seen walking away from the four sites of interest in Sandwich with the plastic bags.

One had a pair of bandage cutting scissors inside while others contained a black item in a smaller zip lock pouch.

 

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https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/abandoned-builders-yard-taped-off-in-sarah-investigation-244116/

17 March 2021


Officers in the Sarah Everard murder investigation are searching an abandoned builders' yard and former St John's Ambulance base.

Met teams carrying tools, including what looked like shovels, were seen arriving in a van and disappearing down an alleyway beside a B&B in the centre of Dover at around 3.30pm

The property on Folkestone Road is beside a piece of vacant and overgrown land earmarked for development.

The B&B's garden borders North Military Road where officers have now sealed off land next to the former St John's Ambulance site which is near to the former BCB Garage where suspect Wayne Couzens worked for 20 years.

 

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Sarah Everard tests inconclusive - now second exam is being carried out

17 March 2021

A second post-mortem examination is being carried out on Sarah Everard, police have said.

The first examination of the 33-year-old's body proved inconclusive, according to the Met Police.

An inquest hearing is due to take place on Thursday (March 18).

 

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Tribute piece

Sarah Everard's Death Set Off a Movement, but for Friends the Grief Is Personal

17 March 2021

 

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Sarah Everard: Second post-mortem examination carried out after first 'inconclusive'

 

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London buildings lit up orange in memory of Sarah Everard and women victims of violence

17 March 2021


Buildings across London turned orange on Wednesday to honour the memory of Sarah Everard, whose death has sparked protests and discussions about women's safety.

Councils across the capital said they have lit up their town halls in remembrance of the women and girls who have experienced violence.

Orange is the colour of the United Nations campaign to end violence against women.

 

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Sarah Everard's body is released to her family ahead of her funeral | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail

18 March 2021

Murdered Sarah Everard’s body has been released to her family to be laid to rest at a funeral, the opening to her inquest was told this morning watched by her parents and siblings.

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Kent Coroner’s Court was told the kidnapped 33-year-old had two post mortems after the first proved inconclusive, but no cause of death was given.

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Acting Detective Iinspector Lee Tullett, who is one of the Met Police's investigating officers in the case, told the hearing Miss Everard went missing after having dinner at a university friend's home in Clapham.

Her body was found in an area of Hoad's Wood behind a disused golf course in Great Chart near Ashford, Kent on March 10.

Mr Tullett said: "We discovered Sarah there on March 10 at about 4.20pm."

She was formally identified by forensic odontologist Simon Sampson in the mortuary at William Harvey Hospital.

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It came as police were seen putting up a forensic tent at a St John's Ambulance centre near to a garage that used to be owned by the suspect's family. (Dover)

 

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Sarah Everard's family hear of final moments before disappearance at inquest
Daily Mirror

18 March 2021


Sarah Everard's family heard about the final moments before her disappearance as an inquest into her death was opened today.

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Senior coroner Patricia Harding announced she was releasing Ms Everard's body to her family, who were watching the inquest via video link, for her funeral to take place.

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coroner ordered a second post mortem after the first proved inconclusive.

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Acting Detective Inspector Lee Tullott said:
[…] “She left about 9pm.
[…] approximately 15 minute phone call which terminated at 9.27pm. There was no further activity we have been able to estabish on her phone, and no social media presence either.
[…] failed to attend a meeting at work the following day. It was all very much out of character and at that point her boyfriend Josh grew concerned having not heard from her for some time.

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The hearing took less than half an hour and saw inquest proceedings opened and adjourned pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.

 

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18 March 2021 - more Inquest items

Sarah Everard: Inquest opened into death of 33-year-old as family attend via video link
Sky

Sarah Everard's body released to family
KentOnline

https://twitter.com/itv_sarah/status/1372491138586849281
itv

Sarah Everard family hears cause of death not yet established
Guardian

Sarah Everard’s parents and siblings watch as inquest into her death opens
Irish Independent

Sarah Everard’s parents and brother and sister watch as inquest opened
Irish examiner

 

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Explainer

Coroners, post-mortems and inquests | nidirect

 

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Why we can’t report much on the Wayne Couzens court case
KentLive

18 March 2021

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many will be wondering why so little in the way of information has been published to date.

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The reason for this is that a number of reporting restrictions are in place from the moment an individual is arrested.

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When an arrest is made, a case becomes “active” under the Contempt of Court Act 1981.

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This, essentially, is in place to prevent the publication of anything that could prejudice jurors at a potential trial. That includes any material that gives the impression an individual is likely to have committed an offence.

When the case becomes active, only non-prejudicial information about an alleged incident can be published. Non-prejudicial background information may also be published.

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When a jury is selected and a trial begins, the media can publish full reports of what they are told. That is because the jury cannot be prejudiced by publication of information of which they have already been informed in court.

Media have absolute privilege in reporting of court cases where the report is "fair and accurate", provides a summary of cases from both the prosecution and defence, contains no inaccuracies and does not give disproportionate weight to one side or the other.

 

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Cambridge City Council retians White Ribbon status to signify commitment against domestic abuse

Everything that was said at Sarah Everard's inquest as body released to family

 

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Town Hall lit up orange in honour of Sarah Everard

Post-mortem of woman allegedly killed by policeman inconclusive: UK coroner

 

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18 March 2021 - More Inquest articles, info same as previously posted articles

Sarah Everard: A second post-mortem to determine cause of death
Cosmopolitan

Sarah Everard’s parents and brother and sister watch as inquest opened
Hereford Times

Everything that was said at Sarah Everard's inquest as body released to family
MyLondon News

Post-mortem of woman allegedly killed by policeman inconclusive: UK coroner
(Singapore) Straits Times

Sarah Everard death: Inquest opened and adjourned
BBC

 

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Sarah Everard death: Inquest opened and adjourned
March 18 2021
''An inquest into the death of Sarah Everard has been opened and adjourned until the conclusion of criminal proceedings.

The 33-year-old vanished as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.

Ms Everard's family were following the hearing at South East Kent Coroner's Court via video-link.

No cause of death was given and her body was released for a funeral.

A second post-mortem examination has been carried out as the first was inconclusive, the inquest was told.''

 

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Wayne Couzens wife seen for first time since Sarah Everard murder
Wayne Couzens' wife is seen for the first time since his arrest for Sarah Everard's murder | Daily Mail Online

 

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Sarah Everard's body is released to her family ahead of her funeral | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail Updated

18 March 2021

Investigators probing the murder and kidnap of Sarah Everard expect to know soon how she died - after a second post mortem left a coroner able to release her body for her funeral.

Senior coroner Patricia Harding commissioned a second examination yesterday after the first proved inconclusive.

But while the results of the most recent post mortem tests have not come back yet, today she said Miss Everard's body could now be returned to her grieving family to be laid to rest.

She is understood to have felt able to make that decision because she expects the results of the examination to show the cause of death."