Just champion: Sonny Jay stunned at winning Dancing on Ice crown
Cressida Dick is criticised after her officers clashed with crowd who had gathered to remember Sarah Everard
SONNY Jay has been crowned the champion of Dancing On Ice.
The radio DJ and his professional partner Angela Egan saw off competition from Faye Brookes, who finished second, andwonthepublicvoteduring last night’s final.
The pair performed a Bolero routine for their final skate, which was inspired by judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s 1984 Winter Olympics figure skating performance.
Following his final performance, Capital Radio presenter Jay said: “I can’t believe it — I wanted to come out of this competition being able to skate with a beer in my hand, now I can do that and I’ve won the whole thing.
“I feel like I’ve completed life.” After being named champion, he added: “That is mental, thank yousomuch.”
Earlier in the final, after Jay’s first performance, judge John Barrowman said he was “skating
like a pro out there”.
He added: “This partnership I love watching.”
After his Popeye-inspired routine, Torvill said: “It’s got a lot of difficulty in there, but you don’t miss a beat when you’re skating to it.
“Also,youhavegotthisfantastic personality.”
After being named runner-up, Brookes said: “All I wanted to do was get here.
“I did it as a personal challenge and it couldn’t have gone to a better guy.”
She got a perfect score for her Swan Lake routine earlier in the final.
After her performance, Dean said: “Your skating has just come to fruition and tonight was just so beautiful.”
Earlier in the final former athlete Colin Jackson was voted out of the competition by the public, despite earning a perfect score for both of his performances.
Jay and Brookes earned only one full set of 10s from the judges during Sunday’s show.
THE head of the Metropolitan Police has said she will not stand down despite calls for her to quit over her force’s actions at a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard.
Dame Cressida Dick said what happened to the 33-year-old “appals me” and made her “more determined, not less” to lead the organisation.
She welcomed the Home Secretary’s request for an independent investigation into the events — which she described as “fiendishly difficult policing”.
In ugly scenes on Saturday night, officers clashed with crowds who had gathered on Clapham Common to remember the marketing executive.
Dame Cressida said: “What happened to Sarah appals me. As you know, I’m the first woman commissioner of the Met, perhaps it appals me, in a way, even more because of that.
“What has happened makes me more determined, not less, to lead my organisation.
“I’ve listened to what people have been saying in the last week, I know that in the streets all across the UK women don’t feel as safe as we would all like women to feel. I am utterly determined.”
She said that “all the women and men of the Met are outraged at what has happened and they’re working as hard as they can to get justice for Sarah”.
Earlier yesterday, Priti Patel asked the Chief Inspector of Constabulary to conduct a “lessons learned” review into the events.
The Home Secretary spoke with Dame Cressida, having received her report into the police’s actions at the vigil.
But “in the interest of confidence in policing” Ms Patel asked Sir Thomas Winsor to conduct an independent review into what happened, a Government source said.
London mayor Sadiq Khan also said he would be asking HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Independent Office for Police Conduct to look into the events.
The mayor said the scenes at the vigil were “completely unacceptable” despite having received assurances from Scotland Yard last week that the vigil would be policed “sensitively”.
Dame Cressida has faced calls to resign after the clashes in which her force’s officers were seen grabbing several women and leading them away in handcuffs.
The Metropolitan Police later said four people were arrested for public order and coronavirus regulation breaches.
Three of those — including a man and two women — were arrested on suspicion of breaching the Health Protection Regulation and have been reported for consideration of a fixed-penalty notice.
A fourth person — a woman in her teens — was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and has been released under police investigation.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have confidence in Dame Cressida and spoke with her yesterday.
In one video, a woman could be seen being shoved forcefully in the back by two officers after being lifted from her knees.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, then tries to bend down near the officers and is shoved back again. She can be heard shouting that she is trying to retrieve her glasses.
Serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, who is accused of murdering Ms Everard, was remanded in custody after his first court appearance on Saturday where it emerged her body was found inside a large builder’s bag.
Couzens (48) is charged with kidnapping and murdering Ms Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend’s flat in south London on March 3.
Last night, Mr Johnson has said the death of Ms Everard must “unite us in determination” to drive out violence against women and girls.
The Prime Minister will chair a meeting of the Crime and Justice Taskforce today to look at what action needs to be taken to
ensure the UK’S streets are safe.
Dame Cressida is expected to attend the meeting along with Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill, Priti Patel and Robert Buckland.
Mr Johnson will use it to discuss the Government’s strategy on violence against women and girls, securing safer streets, rape prosecutions and the criminal justice system.
Ahead of the meeting, he said: “Like everyone who saw it I was deeply concerned about the footage from Clapham Common on Saturday night.
“Tomorrow I will chair a meeting of the Government’s Crime and Justice Taskforce to look at what further action we need to take to protect women and ensure our streets are safe.
“The death of Sarah Everard must unite us in determination to drive out violence against women and girls.”