Met must answer ‘serious questions’ over Sarah Everard case – Patel

Commissioner Cressida Dick (left) with Home Secretary Priti Patel during a June visit to the new Counter-Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) in West Brompton, London (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

“Serious questions” need to be answered by the Metropolitan Police, the UK Home Secretary has said, as she backed Cressida Dick in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder.

The Met commissioner faced more calls to step down amid demands for urgent action to restore the confidence of women in the police after Wayne Couzens was handed a whole life sentence for the killing.