Did the Duchess of Cambridge break the law by visiting the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday to lay flowers for Sarah Everard?
That was the implication made by the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, yesterday, when she defended the conduct of officers who responded to women publicly sharing their grief and outrage at Everard’s death with four arrests and a shocking degree of force. Dick said that she herself would have attended the vigil “if it had been lawful”, suggesting that all those who did turn up at Clapham Common – including Kate Middleton, who attended flanked by her own police protection officers – were breaking Covid-19 laws.
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