Police confirm body found in Kent woodland is Sarah Everard

Nine days after Sarah Everard, 33, left a friend's home in Clapham and began the short walk to her flat in Brixton, police confirmed that human remains found in a Kent woodland were hers — ending a search that had gripped London and unsettled something far deeper than one city's sense of safety. A serving Metropolitan Police officer, arrested in Deal, Kent, remained in custody, a detail that pressed hard against the social contract between those sworn to protect and those who trust them. Her death, ordinary in its setting and devastating in its meaning, has forced a reckoning with the quiet fe