The Met advised women to “shout out to a passer-by, run into a house or wave a bus down” in case they felt danger from a police force.

A UK police officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and murdering marketing executive Sarah Everard.

A British police officer on Friday admitted murdering Sarah Everard, whose killing sparked anger, protests and soul-searching across the country about what the authorities and society could do to stop male violence against women.

Police chiefs are accusing Home Secretary Priti Patel of inconsistency over the violent suppression of female protesters attending the Sarah Everard vigil.

As expected given its 80-seat majority in the House of Commons, the Johnson government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill passed into legislation by a comfortable margin of 358 votes in favor and 263 against.

Protesters gathered outside the British parliament and the London police headquarters for a fourth day of demonstrations against men's violence and heavy-handed policing in the wake of the murder of Londoner Sarah Everard.

Boris Johnson has strongly defended the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police as the outcry over violence directed at British women continues to intensify.