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Sarah Everard’s murderer has been sentenced. Now, Cressida Dick must go

Everard’s murder by a police officer exposes the reality of a rotten institution with a culture of misogyny. Before we can fix it, Dick must resign

Sarah Everard’s murderer has been sentenced. Now, Cressida Dick must go
Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick must resign in the wake of Sarah Everard's murderer by one of her officers | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Like many, I followed with horror the devastating details emerging from the sentencing of Wayne Couzens, who has become the first police officer to receive a whole-life prison sentence, for the murder of Sarah Everard in London in March.

As I read of Sarah's impossibly cruel and terrifying final hours, a single thought drilled against the inside of my head: Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, for which Couzens was an officer, must resign. Yes, there are a million social, cultural and political things that also need to happen, but this has to happen first.

Cressida Dick must resign.