Arrested at Sarah Everard’s vigil: how Patsy Stevenson’s life changed for ever

The 30-year-old, now awarded damages by the Met police, talks about how a photo made her a target for hate and how she hopes to move on

• Met police pays damages to women arrested at Sarah Everard vigil

There is one thing that Patsy Stevenson can't stand when people see the image of her being pinned down on the ground by police on the night of the Sarah Everard vigil: them saying that she looked good.

Some people were like, Oh, you look so great', or Your hair looks amazing in that picture'," she says, after learning that the Metropolitan police have settled the claim that she and Dania al-Obeid, who was also at the vigil, brought against them. But that was a really traumatic event for me and I don't think people always take into consideration that I'm not a picture, I'm a person."