Sarah Everard this time last week. The 33-year-old went missing on Wednesday, March 3 during the walk she must have done a hundred times back to her home in Brixton Hill.
Nine days later, we all know Everard - or at least the details that have been released so far: that she is a Durham alumni who moved to south London after graduation; that she works in marketing; that family members saw her as a happy, fit and healthy young woman who’d given them no reason to suspect anything was wrong in the weeks before her disappearance.
It is the familiarity of these facts that are a large part of the reason Everard’s story - and news that a serving police officer has been charged with her murder- seems to have struck a chord with so many.
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