The Met Police has paid “substantial damages” to two women arrested at the Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard.
Patsy Stevenson and Dani Al-Obeid were both arrested after attending a vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham Common in 2021 - which had been banned because of covid restrictions.
The pre-planned socially distanced event has been cancelled after the Met said it would be illegal under lockdown restrictions, threatening organisers with £10,000 fines.
But people still turned up, including Patsy and Dania.
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Dania spoke to us about what it was like at the Vigil.
“It felt like us against the Met Police” as she was showing her respect for Sarah Everard.
Eventually Dania was arrested: “They felt like huge men grabbing my arm and I was just kinda like please can you not hold my arm? This was too much, we were surrounded by police officers as if we had done something really criminal.”
Dania was suing the Met but since this apology and paying the two women “substantial damages” the case has been drawn to a close.
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How much they’ve been paid we’re not sure of, but the boss of the Met has said it's “understandable” the two women wanted to attend the vigil because they felt women had been “badly let down”
You can watch our full documentary on YouTube, which Dania features in, about the Met Police here.