Two women who were arrested at a vigil for Sarah Everard during the Covid pandemic have received a settlement from the Metropolitan Police.
The Met Police was criticised at the time for its handling of the vigil, which turned rowdy into the evening following an outpouring of anger against the police force.
"But members of the public attended anyway, with no police intervention for around six hours before clashes occurred."888 service aimed at keeping lone women safe at night in wake of Sarah Everard murder scrappedIt will take 'up to three years’ to clear Met of corrupt police officers, says Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley
"Acknowledging that the fundamental right to protest remained, the circumstances at the time of the vigil - namely that we were in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic - presented an extremely difficult challenge for policing and the officers present due to the need to balance the potential risk such a gathering could pose to public health.
A spokesperson for the police force said: "A protracted legal dispute is not in the interests of any party, least of all the complainants who we recognise have already experienced significant distress as a result of this incident. "I appreciate that the Met Police have acknowledged our motivations for attending it but 'badly let down' is an understatement.
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