Missing Woman Sarah Everard.....latest!

[Smowball]

Police have arrested a serving police officer, and a woman, and are digging up his garden in Kent.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/sarah-everard-met-police-officer-20041887

[ummmm]

How can they name him when they haven't even got a body?

[gulliver1]

13,37 "Apparently the officer was not on duty at the time"
What difference does that make.?

[dannyk13]

ummmm, In the past there have a few convictions for murder without having a body.

[Smowball]

They’ve clearly found something that is pointing to him - maybe CCTV saw her getting in a car with him or something??

[Smowball]

He doesn’t even live in London, he’s in Deal, Kent.

[ummmm]

But this is very early days, danny.

[dannyk13]

Gulliver at 13.37. Nothing whatsoever, except the Met absolving themselves from a question of his supervision.

[burlyshirley]

Something concrete definitely happened to send the police his way to make an arrest. I wonder if they'll find the poor girl's body.

[dannyk13]

ummmm, there are probably some facts that, at the moment, they are not releasing.

[Patsy33]

Police have obviously got some concrete evidence. Perhaps his partner secretly alerted police?

[ummmm]

Of course there are but doesn't mean they should name him this early.

[Smowball]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/sarah-everard-met-police-officer-20048279

[Jackdaw33]

I think it's fair to assume that the arrested woman is his wife/partner. Why should she be arrested on suspicion of harbouring when, as Patsy suggests, she may have turned him in?

[burlyshirley]

He sounds like a wrong 'un. I was wondering if he had 'previous', but surely this would have been discovered when he joined the police ...

[Barmaid]

The police do not need anything near concrete to arrest someone, tear their house apart and release their name to the press. Indeed for an arrest they only need reasonable grounds for suspicion.

Whenever they release the name of someone they have arrested I cannot help but think that I really hope they have it right because the damage that can be done otherwise can be devastating.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I would presume, as they have added another charge of indecent exposure, that they have CCTV linking him to the alleged victim.

[Smowball]

It’s all very very odd. He was apparently a mechanic for 20 years before he joined the police.

[wolf63]

The suspect, in his 40s, is an officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, the Met said.

Update https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56351135

[Barmaid]

The indecent exposure relates to another victim so I read earlier.

[Smowball]

Doesn’t look good does it. Poor poor woman x