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Oct 2021
North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner has apologised for comments he made in the wake of the Sarah Everard case.
Mr Allott faced calls to resign after he said that women “need to be street wise” and that Ms Everard “never should have submitted” to arrest.
The comments sparked a Twitter backlash, including the director of Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, calling for him to resign.
Mr Allott said in a tweet this afternoon:
https://twitter.com/philAllottPFCC/status/1443954284048039945?s=20
Mr Allott’s comments come as murderer Wayne Couzens, a Met Police officer, had falsely arrested 33-year-old Ms Everard in order to abduct her.
Couzens was given a whole life sentence at the Old Bailey yesterday
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