Foreign Secretary Liz Truss rejected the claim that the UK’s criminal justice system was “institutionally misogynistic” in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder. Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was walking home in the evening on March 3 after having dinner at a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, when she was kidnapped by then-Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens, who made a fake COVID-19 arrest and drove Everard to Kent before raping her, strangling her to death with his police belt, burning her body in a fridge, and disposing of her remains. As her killer was handed a life sentence on Thursday, the high-profile case has sparked a fresh round of debates on police vetting, women’s safety, and the criminal justice system, whose response to rape allegations—according to a watchdog report published in July—“often lacks focus, clarity, and commitment.” The report said the inspectors of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service “were …