UK UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London - Clapham Common area, 3 March 2021

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azzie2323 said:
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. I really hope they find her. I live in the same area as Sarah and she would have most likely passed near my street on the way to her friend and on the way back (if she made it that far). There are posters everywhere. It is genuinely frightening. It usually feels safe around here and I have walked this route many many times myself - during mat leave often with my baby to meet other mums in the Common. Although in lockdown the streets have been super quiet and different - eerily so. As a female I'm sometimes quite nervous on my nursery run in the evenings around 5/6pm and will often ask my husband to do the evening runs as it has been so quiet lately. I do recognise the Sainbury's as my local one near the south circular from the tiling on the ground. It is very specific. I hope she is okay but fear the worst. Wish there is anything I could do to help.
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Please don't ever get complacent as there were areas there I would not walk at night in and around Brixton but would be happy to in the day and was comfortable doing this for years, but then one day I was cycling slowly (not walking) through Stockwell and was confronted by a man ****ing. Glad I was on my bike and could pelt it out of there. Look at the crime stats someone posted further up this thread for the area. In ten years I was also physically assaulted on two different occasions by men (who were either mentally unstable or high). So that is three crimes towards me, a woman, in ten years all in daylight. Its easy to get complacent. You could live there 7 years and nothing happen then...

Edit: I've just remembered two more crimes but not involving me in that area. One was my neighbour upstairs had an intruder enter her flat and another neighbour in another year had a men enter her house and that was a sexual intruder. All of these including above are in a ten year period.

Police state they can't be sure she made it home? So just supposing she did make it home, she could have been a victim of an intruder. It might not have been a street disappearance.
 
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Officer Dibble said:
Agree with your thoughts. JMO.
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The latest CCTV development of SE “walking alone” along the A205/Poynders Road does suggest she was on foot, and sticking to main roads, at least initially. From there, the quickest route to the Craster Road area does follow the driving type route (cutting up New Park Road to Brixton Hill and then right at some point into Tulse Hill). But I guess we can’t rule out that the police are following up vehicle routes/CCTV too, especially as the specific mention of Brixton Water Lane appears, to me, too far north of SE’s intended end destination (based purely on her Strava routes though, so perhaps not entirely reliable).
 
MsMiniSleuth said:
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard have released new information about where she was last seen.

33-year-old Sarah was spotted on CCTV at approximately 21:30hrs on Wednesday, 3 March. She was walking alone on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road, in the direction of Tulse Hill.

Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin said: "I would like to stress that there is no information at this stage to suggest anything untoward may have happened to Sarah.

"The focus remains on returning her home to her family safe and well and that is our number one priority.

CCTV confirms last known sighting of missing Sarah Everard


Cavendish Road heading a few streets along to Clarence and Agnes Riley Gardens - which is the vicinity of the last phone ping.
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Thank you for the update. Some local context: Poynders Road is a generally busy (though quieter at the moment) main road, big and wide, with the feel of an avenue or a boulevard. Properties are set a little way back from the pavement.
 
I was out for a walk that same evening but several miles away from the common so not linked. I was in a quiet street when two cars pulled up next to me and a man got out and was staring at me the whole way down the street- it is hard to describe why i saw it as suspicious- maybe makes me sound paranoid but I am pretty sure that something illegal was going on. I think it was probably a drug dealing situation with something passed between the two cars but it made me nervous. I thought at the time that maybe because there are fewer people around that people might be more brazen regarding criminal activity in the streets. I am an older woman and used to walking on my own in London and in the dark but it did make me scared and i took my headphones out for the rest of the walk. There are probably dodgy people around most nights but since lockdown i rarely go out.
 
azzie2323 said:
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. I really hope they find her. I live in the same area as Sarah and she would have most likely passed near my street on the way to her friend and on the way back (if she made it that far). There are posters everywhere. It is genuinely frightening. It usually feels safe around here and I have walked this route many many times myself - during mat leave often with my baby to meet other mums in the Common. Although in lockdown the streets have been super quiet and different - eerily so. As a female I'm sometimes quite nervous on my nursery run in the evenings around 5/6pm and will often ask my husband to do the evening runs as it has been so quiet lately. I do recognise the Sainbury's as my local one near the south circular from the tiling on the ground. It is very specific. I hope she is okay but fear the worst. Wish there is anything I could do to help.

Edit: I would also like to point out that I have experienced a few things in this area over lockdown (but also before) that made me feel very uncomfortable. I’ve noticed an increase in men walking outside who don’t seem to be completely okay and often will shout or talk to themselves or seem high. Last year when I was walking with my baby in the sling a man who I’ve never met before approached me out of the blue and aggressively accused me of calling the police on him. I was incredibly frightened. Not saying the two are related but there seems to be an increasing lack of help for people who need professional support ever since the lockdown started.
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I think the mentally ill are struggling in lockdown (as are everyone). See my post about things that happened to me there.
 
So at approximately 9pm she left her friends through the back of Leathwaite road, onto the A205 through Clapham Common park. We now know she was seen on CCTV on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road (in the direction of Tulse Hill) at approximately 9:30pm. So in 30 minutes she walked 1.2 miles. She was walking at a moderate pace of 2.4 miles per hour.
 
SouthLondon85 said:
Thank you for the update. Some local context: Poynders Road is a generally busy (though quieter at the moment) main road, big and wide, with the feel of an avenue or a boulevard. Properties are set a little way back from the pavement.
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Are the properties detached family homes or a mixture of housing?
Would there be likely to be uninhabited homes where Sarah could be hidden?
 
sundaaaay said:
So at approximately 9pm she left her friends through the back of Leathwaite road, onto the A205 through Clapham Common park. We now know she was seen on CCTV on the A205 Poynders Road, from the junction with Cavendish Road (in the direction of Tulse Hill) at approximately 9:30pm. So in 30 minutes she walked 1.2 miles. She was walking at a moderate pace of 2.4 miles per hour.
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I read it as somewhere along the stretch of Poynders Rd from the Cavendish Rd junction “end” to the part where Clarence Ave intersects it. So she could have been further along, ie nearer to Clarence Ave (Agnes Riley Gardens if she was walking on the right hand side of the road). I’m not sure it’s been released exactly which CCTV caught her at 9:30pm, ie where along Poynders it was.
 
Officer Dibble said:
Please don't ever get complacent as there were areas there I would not walk at night in and around Brixton but would in be happy to in the day and was comfortable doing this for years, but then one day I was cycling slowly (not walking) through Stockwell and was confronted by a man ****ing. Glad I was on my bike and could pelt it out of there. Look at the crime stats someone posted further up this thread for the area. In ten years I was also physically assaulted on two different occasions by men (who were either mentally unstable or high). So that is three crimes towards me, a woman, in ten years all in daylight. Its easy to get complacent. You could live there 7 years and nothing happen then...

Edit: I've just remembered two more crimes but not involving me in that area. One was my neighbour upstairs had an intruder enter her flat and another neighbour in another year had a men enter her house and that was a sexual intruder. All of these including above are in a ten year period.

Police state they can't be sure she made it home? So just supposing she did make it home, she could have been a victim of an intruder. It might not have been a street disappearance.
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I fear we reach a point where the disturbing incidents you catalogue here are somehow normalised and rationalised to be part and parcel of living in an urban area. What you relate here is pretty horrifying.
 
Had she continued on this route along the A205, she may have turned left on Clarence Avenue which explain the last phone ping there. Looking along this avenue on Google Maps it does seem to be a mixture of property types , some are residential but many are set back from the road with lots of greenery in between. Although I understand most of it is deciduous, apart from the Privet hedging. Does anyone from London walk around here often? Seems there is criminal activity but most of it gang related.
 
Parmalade said:
I read it as somewhere along the stretch of Poynders Rd from the Cavendish Rd junction “end” to the part where Clarence Ave intersects it. So she could have been further along, ie nearer to Clarence Ave (Agnes Riley Gardens if she was walking on the right hand side of the road). I’m not sure it’s been released exactly which CCTV caught her at 9:30pm, ie where along Poynders it was.
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I see what you mean, that it was possibly beyond this point. There's likely CCTV whichever way she went home, such as at the Londis (Londis Clapham Park) and beyond this at the Tesco express, so if she isn't seen on more her route extent could be assumed by a process of elimination. Agnes Riley Gardens is a potential location of an attack, not very big but quite isolated. I think they will find something soon.
 
NEW: Specialist Crime Command has taken over investigation into disappearance of #SarahEverard due to "complex nature and concerns for Sarah's welfare"

But @metpoliceuk stress there's nothing to suggest "anything untoward has happened" and case is still missing persons enquiry

@ivorbennett https://twitter.com/ivorbennett/status/1368590190151925765?s=21
 
Skigh said:
Are the properties detached family homes or a mixture of housing?
Would there be likely to be uninhabited homes where Sarah could be hidden?
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Thanks for your reply. It's a big, long road and I don't walk or drive it all that often, but it's a mix of different types of properties - some larger scale commercial (it's not a shopping street), some residential (both blocks of flats and houses). It's a proper main road, but quiet right now.

To update you on movements here, there are search teams out again on and around the Common today, and the police have been going door to door and searching gardens around Clarence Avenue. Agnes Riley Gardens is small and there isn't much cover - I believe it has been/continues to be searched.
 
tedtink said:
We don't know if she lived alone or not.
LE said that they did not know whether she actually arrived home that night.

But as we saw in the Libby Squire case, she lived with housemates and they didn't notice she wasn't there until the next day.
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Forgive me if this has already been mentioned (I'm playing catch up) or if anyone thinks it pedantic but ... Libbys friends realised she was missing almost immediately - they put her in a taxi & called to check she was home safe not long after (an hour or so) and when they couldn't get hold of her they immediately left the club to look for her and contacted her mum and police. Sadly... predators work fast and it was already too late for Libby
 
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