'Treated like children': women report feeling silenced as Sarah Everard vigils cancelled

London event cancelled after lack of engagement' from police while Edinburgh organiser says grief dismissed as frivolous'

Women have reported feeling silenced as the authorities urged people not to gather to commemorate Sarah Everard, whose body was found on Friday after she disappeared while walking home last week.

Organisers of the London vigil for Everard, whose death has sparked renewed outcry about a lack of safety for women on UK streets, said that they had been forced to cancel the event after a lack of constructive engagement from the Metropolitan police".