After helping Prime Minister Boris Johnson ride out his “Partygate” scandal, Scotland Yard has decided to press charges against four people who attended a vigil for a young woman who was abducted, raped, and murdered by a British police officer
, for the murdered Sarah Everard on Clapham Common in March 2021 will face charges of illegally attending a public gathering of more than two people in a public place while London was under strict COVID lockdown.
The High Court ruled this year that Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the vigil organizers by threatening them with £10,000 fines if the vigil went ahead—a ruling the Met has twice tried to appeal. The decision to press on with the charges came as the group Led by Donkeys—a kind of U.K. version of the Lincoln Project—released a devastating video documenting seven occasions on which