Hi everyone - I'm new here and wanted to add my perspective.
I am a South Londoner and have racked up many hundreds of miles during lockdown. I've walked that route repeatedly most weeks and more recently towards the end of February. As we can all see via the TFL CCTV cameras, there is only 3 cameras of interest. (1) along battersea rise/clapham common (2) clapham south station (3) poynder's parade.
As an avid walker and a female in her late 20s, I wanted to share a few unanswered questions I have surrounding the case:
- How does an attacker know, if wearing headphones, that you're not on the phone to somebody?
- How does an attacker know, that you're not very close to your home, albeit at home your home already?
- There's no confirmed knowledge (apart from the Times article) that she lived alone or with housemates
- Was she at work during the day?
- For her friend, the location where SE left, did she try to contact S to see if she made it home okay?
I have been thinking about this since I first heard about it and I just hope that Sarah arrives home unscathed soon. This is truly a devastating story and I hope for the thousands of women, who like me, walk alone in the city they love, don't start to feel scared.