Sarah Everard

A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found a week later in woodland

The murder of Sarah Everard, allegedly by a police officer, in South London sparked an outcry in the U.K. about violence against women that has become a global movement. LX News host Ashley Holt explains why Everard’s death touched a nerve with women around the world.

The British government plans to increase funding for street lighting and closed-circuit TV as part of a package of measures to help protect women and girls

The head of London’s Metropolitan Police force has defended her officers’ actions and says she didn’t intend to resign.

London’s police department is under scrutiny for the way officers handled some participants at an unofficial vigil for a London woman whose killing has a fellow officer facing murder charges.

The suspected abduction and murder of a young London woman as she walked home has dismayed Britain and revived a painful question: Why are women too often not safe on the streets