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CPS decision to stop criminalisation of women under fast-track justice procedure is further humiliation for UK’s biggest police force

The horrifying murders of Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Bobbi-Anne McLeod, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were each reminders of the worst case scenario women fear when experiencing unwanted attention from men in public. Now, the UK government has opened a consultation asking whether public sexual harassment should be a distinct…

The ex-police officer has failed in a bid to reduce his whole-life sentence at the Court of Appeal

Three police officers are being cross-examined over messages they sent on a group WhatsApp chat with Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, in 2019.

Lord Burnett said the gravity of the case was ‘so exceptionally high such that a whole life order rather than a minimum term order should be made’.

The Sarah Everard murdered failed to reduce his sentence at the Court of Appeal

Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and four other judges refused to lower Couzens' sentence following a bid to reduce his sentence at the Court of Appeal

WAYNE Couzens remains set to die behind bars after an attempt to have his whole life sentence was rejected.

Couzens’s lawyers argued he deserved 'decades in jail' but said a whole-life term was excessive