The British police confirmed Friday, that human remains were discovered in the woods in South London, belong to that of Sarah Everard, a missing woman at the center of a high-profile case that sent shockwaves across the Kingdom.

Everard, was a 33-year-old marketing executive, who disappeared while walking home from her friend's house in the Brixton area, South London March 3. Her disappearance touched off a national outcry over violence against women. 

The latest development in the discovery of Everard's body, came as detectives said they had been given more time to a question a serving member of the Metropolitan Police’s elite diplomatic protection unit in connection with the case.

“The body has now been recovered and a formal identity procedure has taken place. I can now confirm that it is the body of Sarah Everard,” Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Nick Ephgrave told reporters.

The Metropolitan Police said that the officer, Wayne Couzens, whose primary role was patrolling diplomatic premises, would appear in court on Saturday to face charges tied with Everard's murder.

In merely days, Everard's case came to bring forward a longstanding problem that many women said plagues the UK and could no longer be ignored: that at home or in public spaces, many women are exposed to danger and are not safe.

In light of the case, MP Jess Phillips, during a parliamentary session Thursday, read out the names of 118 women and girls killed in the UK in the last year.

“Dead women is a thing we’ve all just accepted as part of our daily lives,” said Phillips, reading the names of victims whose killings involve a man charged or convicted.

“Killed women are not vanishingly rare. Killed women are common,” Phillips added.