Louise O'Neill: 'I cried, not just for Sarah Everard, but for every woman who never made it home'
Messages and floral tributes left by well-wishers to honour murder victim Sarah Everard at the bandstand on Clapham Common in south London on March 14, 2021, a day after Metropolitan Police officers scuffled at the spot with some members of a hundreds-strong crowd that gathered for a candlelit tribute. Picture: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images
There’s a line in my last book that says, “women had always been taught to be afraid; it was embedded in their very DNA, passed down from mother to daughter, a poisonous heirloom.”
That’s what I kept coming back to when I heard of Sarah Everard’s murder – how afraid she must have been.
