Police 'remain open-minded' as search for missing Sarah Everard continues

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Police remain “open-minded as to all possibilities” over the disappearance of Sarah Everard, as they continue their search for the 33-year-old Londoner, who has been missing since last week.

DCI Katherine Goodwin, who is leading the Metropolitan police’s investigation, said: “This is definitely a missing person investigation at the moment, but I remain open-minded as to all possibilities in the investigation.”

Everard has not been seen since Wednesday, when she left a friend’s home in Clapham, south-west London, to walk home by herself to Brixton, about 50 minutes away by foot.

The last known sighting of her was on Poynders Road, which links the two areas, where she was captured on film by a private door camera as she walked alone from the junction at Cavendish Road in the direction of Tulse Hill, south of Brixton.

Speaking outside Scotland Yard on Monday evening, Goodwin said her officers had reviewed hours of CCTV in an effort to trace Everard’s movements five days ago, on the night she was last seen.

She appealed for anyone with more footage to come forward, particularly people with a dashcam, such as delivery drivers, who may have been driving along Poynders Road at around 9pm on Wednesday.

On Monday, searches continued in the area, with police examining a small park close to where Everard’s mobile phone signal was last registered. Divers were searching the pond in Agnes Riley Gardens, while sniffer dogs scoured the area. Officers were also searching a housing estate close to where Everard was last seen. Missing posters asking for information on her whereabouts have been pasted on lamp-posts in a wide radius around the area.

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She was last seen wearing a green waterproof jacket, navy-blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She may also have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.

Efforts to find Everard continued “at pace”, Goodwin said. “We are currently knocking on doors. We’ve spoken to over 750 different people and addresses have been visited. We continue to receive hundreds of calls from the public. We’ve received over a hundred calls so far.”

According to the Sun, officers knocking on doors in the area urged local residents to be vigilant and warned women “not to go out alone”.

Everard, a marketing manager, moved to London about 12 years ago. She has a brother and a sister who also live in the city. Their parents have travelled down from York to join with the search.

Everard’s family said in a statement on Saturday that they were becoming increasingly concerned. “With every day that goes by, we are getting more worried about Sarah. She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this. We long to see her and want nothing more than for her to be found safe and well,” they said.

“We are so grateful to the police and all our friends for all they are doing. We are desperate for news and if anyone knows anything about what has happened to her, we would urge you to please come forward and speak to the police. No piece of information is too insignificant.”

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