Sexually motivated crimes against women in public are not afforded the same response as other high-priority crimes, an inquiry into the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by off-duty police officer Wayne Couzens has found.

Publishing her findings on Tuesday, Lady Elish Angiolini, a former solicitor general for Scotland, said: "There is no better time to act than now. I want leaders to, quite simply, get a move on. There are lives at stake."

The second part of the independent inquiry is split into two reports, with the first focusing on the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces.

Despite violence against women and girls being described as a "national threat" in the 2023 strategic policing requirement and it being mentioned as a high priority for the current

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