Eleanor Neale

Just after 9pm, Sarah Everard left her friend's house and began her familiar walk home in the dark.

She stuck to well-lit roads, she had her boyfriend on the phone, everything about this journey actually felt safe.

But just as she was starting to get close to home, someone stopped her and took her.

The more details that emerged, the more unsettling this case became because the person responsible for Sarah's murder was someone that most of us would have trusted and her killer knew it.

Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast.

I'm Eleanor Neale and in today's episode, we're in South London in 2021, where the boyfriend, friends and family of Sarah Everard are starting to realise that something isn't right.

It's a Thursday, a work day, and she should be in the office by now, but her co-workers are saying that she never turned up.

They realise that texts are no longer delivering to her phone, calls aren't going through.

And the concern only grows as the hours pass and soon her boyfriend has reported her missing to the police.

Within days, a full-scale operation to find her is underway.

Only Sarah Everard.

wouldn't be found alive.

For international listeners, I really can't overstate just how huge this case became here in the UK.

It stayed in public conversation for such a long time afterwards, even still to this day, especially among women.

Everyone was genuinely shaken.

It was like the rug had been pulled from beneath all of us and a false sense of security that we had was exposed and broken.

Years later, it's a case that still gets brought up constantly whenever conversations around safety and trust come up.

So I think it's about time we bring it into the conversation here on Outlaw.

Now, before we get into the case, I do just wanna give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no harm or disrespect to anyone that we talk about in this video.

Our episodes are made with the utmost care to honour those who lost their lives and respect the profound grief their loved ones endure.