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

[Lucy6226]

We don't seem to have a lot of TV appeals anymore, I've noticed. But in this case, SE and the boyfriend may have been in new relationship or simply chosen not to live together. A 'partner' I think is a little misleading as I personally would assume this to be a bit more serious a setup than a 'boyfriend', and sharing the same home, but might just be more due to PC days.

I refer to my relationship as partner. We don't live together. But saying boy/girlfriend at almost 40 just feels weird!

I don't think we should read too much into relationship titles tbh.

 

[JosephineRobert]

Are we to infer anything from the fact they haven’t released the doorbell cam still/footage?

Maybe just too poor quality to be of any help over and above placing Sarah there at that time - which is info they have given out anyway.

 

[Parmalade]

Are we to infer anything from the fact they haven’t released the doorbell cam still/footage?

Maybe just too poor quality to be of any help over and above placing Sarah there at that time - which is info they have given out anyway.

May have one or multiple POI in shot that they do not want to alert, or give details of to the public out of security for them whilst they eliminate them.

 

[lalalemon]

I'm getting such huge Joanna Yates vibes with this one... they feel very similar to me.

 

[Parmalade]

Another thought I’ve had: we’ve not seen details of whether SE’s employers expected her in/online on the Thursday. If they did expect her to be working, then this may support a post-work meet up with her partner and therefore perhaps an 8pm alarm raise as more reasonable (beyond the good points raised pages ago about how long it can take to decide to formally raise a missing persons report to LE).

 

[RobinCAL]

Police searching a new park
Specialist police officers with sniffer dogs have been searching in Agnes Riley Gardens this morning.

The park is off Poynders Road, further along from the junction of Cavendish Road where Sarah Everard was last seen on CCTV walking alone at 9.30pm on Wednesday, March 3.

Police have been preparing to search an ornamental pond in the park.

Updates as missing Sarah Everard's uncle makes urgent plea as search continues

 

[Vera_dci]

I'm getting such huge Joanna Yates vibes with this one... they feel very similar to me.

Sarah's disappearance has left me totally perplexed. I was leaning more towards stranger attack but im not so sure now. I get Joanne Yates vibes too. Its strange that the police don't seem to want to confirm if Sarah made it home. I also find it odd that the police aren't urging women to be more vigilant if out at night. It could be that they don't want to create hysteria but surely the publics safety has to come first if a potential attacker is on the loose.

 

[Parmalade]

Has there been any LE activity around Craster Road area if we assume momentarily that’s where she lives? I wonder if a constable would guard her residence to prevent a perp returning there to dispose of any evidence that might be there? Not sure why this would be useful if so, other than validating that area as her home address. Again, this is based only a Strava run, so far from reliable.

 

[Pimlipo]

Can’t stop thinking of Sarah and checking this thread. Not much to add but these murmurs of recent possible attacks in the area bring back thoughts of Libby squire
How haunting that her dad works at York uni too, will be well aware of the Claudia Lawrence case and for him to be in this nightmare now. Pray they get some good news today

 

[Acorunadepor]

With the Police making requests for footage from Brixton Water Ln. Wouldn't that make her route towards her area a bit akward?

Is there already a map with her confirmed and afterwards possible route?

If she would come off Brixton Water Ln and took a right onto Tulse Hill (A204). The camera of the Sainsbury's would have picked her up.

 

[jenpil]

If I'm right in reading the news reports, they didn't know if she made it home?

Well, surely this would have been the easiest thing in the world to know!

It could have gone something like this:

Were her shoes/keys there? No.
Was there signs of someone breaking into the house? No.
Were there signs of a struggle? No.

Then I guess she didn't make it home!

If she was back home, her phone would be plugged in, charged up and be transmitting again.

If I'm right she had about another 30 mins walk before she got home, and the phone went dead half way through her route.

If she had a long walk, she would have made sure the phone was charged before for safety's sake and also for music to listen to. She was on the phone for 15 mins chatting, so we know she can't have had battery worries, otherwise she would have made the conversation short and explained why.

 

[Kaykedi]

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.

Those would be exactly my thoughts. I can't imagine having a boyfirend who would be happy about such a thing and can't think of anyone I know who would. You would either pick up your girlfriend in the car, meet her walking, or help to arrange some form of transport.

That being said, we don't know any details at all. Perhaps he doesn't have a car or for whatever reason wasn't able or didn't want to assist. They could have had a falling out. We just don't know.

Yes

Such a sad case. I live in north Hertfordshire and would think nothing of walking home for 40/50 mins after a night with friends and have done it many times. Often walk past a big common here too. I’ve always considered it relatively safe but still have a moment of fear when I see a man walk by, or I hold my keys in case I have to defend myself. It’s awful that women have to think like that, and that cases like this exacerbate that fear.

I would love to think she is somehow ok but it seems vv unlikely at this point.

Once lockdown is over and I can meet up with my friends again, I wonder what I’ll do next time I need to walk home? I should be safe to do whatever I prefer, but am I? I do believe the onus is on men not to hurt women, not on women to live in fear, but does it really mean we can live by that?

No, you're not safe (potentially). It saddens and angers me to say. Completely agree with you that females should be safe to walk in public alone, day, or night. but, we're not. The reason? If we take into account that a lot of attacks on females are sexually motivated, there is a saying, "a standing penis has no conscience". Which puts lone females in great danger. Hope I don't 'get into trouble' for using the word of a body part?! JMO MOO

 

[sundaythrower]

If I'm right in reading the news reports, they didn't know if she made it home?

Well, surely this would have been the easiest thing in the world to know!

It could have gone something like this:

Were her shoes/keys there? No.
Was there signs of someone breaking into the house? No.
Were there signs of a struggle? No.

Then I guess she didn't make it home!

If she was back home, her phone would be plugged in, charged up and be transmitting again.

If I'm right she had about another 30 mins walk before she got home, and the phone went dead half way through her route.

If she had a long walk, she would have made sure the phone was charged before for safety's sake and also for music to listen to. She was on the phone for 15 mins chatting, so we know she can't have had battery worries, otherwise she would have made the conversation short and explained why.

I think what they mean by that is that there was a possibility she made it home and then left again at some point. Just because there wasn’t a struggle or signs she’s STILL there doesn’t mean she didn’t get there and then leave again. Or someone she knew came round hence no struggle?
They are obviously leaving options open in that regard.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

A series of local worrying incidents has left locals wondering is there a possible connection between these incidents and the disappearance of Sarah Everard last Wednesday evening?

This has been posted on one of the local social media sites:

There has been a pattern of very worrying incidents in the last few months before Sarah Everard's disappearance, and apart from the Tooting Common sexual assault, all happened on or within 100 metres of the route Sarah would have taken on 3rd March:

1) October 2020, man came out of grounds of St Matthew's Church, Brixton Hill at around 10 pm and tried to get a passing lady to come into the grounds with him. When she wouldn't, he started following her saying he would come with her then, whilst making threatening comments to her. She ran away. She says description of man matches that of man in incident 5) below

2) 16.11.20 a young woman was sexually assaulted in the woodland area of Tooting Common in Broad daylight at 4 pm, by 6 ft tall man in brown leather jacket https://tooting.nub.news/n/woman-left-t ... 1605620479

3) Sexual assault of a young lady on 14.1.21 on Hydethorpe Rd at junction with Radbourne Rd viewtopic.php?f=197&t=118216&sid=900541 ... e12d949ff9

4) On 2.2.21 lady was chased by a man outside Palace Road surgery on Christchurch Rd

5) On around 21.2.21, a 14 year old girl on Rodenhurst Rd was followed by man in a van. Man in green camouflage-style hoodie, medium build, 20s or 30s, black.

Are the reports connected? Praying Sarah Everard is ok. Please everyone, keep yourselves and your loved ones safe.

Worrying incidents in the months before Sarah Everard's disappearance. Are they connected? - NappyValleyNet: a mum's guide to SW London Life

 

[Firstsnow4]

With the Police making requests for footage from Brixton Water Ln. Wouldn't that make her route towards her area a bit akward?

Is there already a map with her confirmed and afterwards possible route?

I suspect that the police are looking for that footage to see if she took any detour or to see if there is any later evidence of potential perp. After all we don’t know if she was heading home and if not perhaps that’s why the police are repeating the same ‘we are not sure if she made it home’.

 

[Acorunadepor]

Yes

No, you're not safe (potentially). It saddens and angers me to say. Completely agree with you that females should be safe to walk in public alone, day, or night. but, we're not. The reason? If we take into account that a lot of attacks on females are sexually motivated, there is a saying, "a standing penis has no conscience". Which puts lone females in great danger. Hope I don't 'get into trouble' for using the word of a body part?! JMO MOO

I have many female friends and they for years have travelled on many ocassions alone. Of course they have their guard up. But are they actually fearing for their life, no. That would make their life impossible.

That said things constantly happen. And you should always be alert. But that goes for everybody. Sexual assualts for the most part happen by a "known" person. Known here refers to, a neighbor, a friend from a friend, or just someone from the neighborhood. (This is aside from husbands, partners ect.)

But for an assault to escalate in someone disappearing with life threathening consequences something else must be in play. Because you just dont disappear from an urban area like that.

 

[jenpil]

I think what they mean by that is that there was a possibility she made it home and then left again at some point.

I just don't think this at all. She didn't make it home sadly. Everything points to her NOT making it home.

MOO

 

[Jimmy Pats]

I currently think an opportunistic attack (possibly somewhere near Clapham Park Estate) is still the most likely scenario, but its true, there isn't very many places to hide a body here. I find it hard to believe she would have walked down a quiet side street on her own accord as she had likely stayed on the A205 road because it was busier. Most of the streets around here are overlooked by residential accommodation and despite lockdown there still is a few people out and about throughout the night as you can see on cctv- so I can't imagine her being taken against her will over much of a distance or a body moved far. It was only 9.30pm.

If she isn't found soon and no new evidence is found, then I would lean towards something happening in a car. I wonder is this half way point significant as she may have decided to walk half way and get a taxi the remaining route. If her phone ran out of battery she would have not been able to use Uber and would have to get a taxi on the road but there can't be many taxi's due to lockdown. I wonder is this area significant? Link

A local mentioned that refuse collection in the area she apparently disappeared from happened the day after the attack so there is a grim possibility that the perp used the large refuse containers you commonly find in and around large housing estates. Not nice to think about obviously.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

A local mentioned that refuse collection in the area she apparently disappeared from happened the day after the attack so there is a grim possibility that the perp used the large refuse containers you commonly find in and around large housing estates. Not nice to think about obviously.

Lindsay Birbeck case too where killer moved her body in wheelie bin. Doesn't bear thinking about, but it happens. For her to have disappeared she would have to have been moved quickly if not by car, then to nearby concealed area, container, shed, garage, etc.

 

[sundaythrower]

I just don't think this at all. She didn't make it home sadly. Everything points to her NOT making it home.

MOO

I also agree she probably didn’t make it home, but I was just saying that’s probably why the police are not ruling it out at this point!
Doesn’t seem like there’s been any further progress this morning. So worried for her and her family today.