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Scottish Labour demands action over ‘national emergency of violence against women’
Patsy Stevenson, who was arrested at the vigil for Sarah Everard, lays a candle she was prevented from laying the first time around at Clapham Common, London, after former police officer Wayne Couzens was handed a whole life order for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard
by our parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt
MISOGYNY should be urgently made a hate crime in response to the “national emergency” of violence against women, Scottish Labour demanded today.
The party’s justice spokeswoman, Pauline McNeill, issued the plea in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard, who was killed by a serving police officer in London in March.
Ms McNeill said that thousands of women in Scotland were the victims of violence and abuse each year.
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