Sarah Everard - report

2021 kidnap, rape, and murder in South East England

On the evening of 3 March 2021, 33-year-old Sarah Everard was kidnapped in South London, England, as she was walking home to the Brixton Hill area from a friend's house near Clapham Common. She was stopped by off-duty Metropolitan Police constable Wayne Couzens who identified himself as a police officer, handcuffed her, and placed her in his car before driving her to near Dover where he raped and strangled her, before burning her body and disposing of her remains in a nearby pond.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sarah_Everard

2022 2023 2024

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Significant news events for Sarah Everard

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Wayne Couzens, 48, was given a whole life sentence at the Old Bailey. He kidnapped, raped and killed Sarah Everard, 33, in south London. Her sister Katie made a powerful victim impact statement in court. Judge: 'You treated Sarah as if she was nothing. Placed more emphasis on satisfying your sick disgusting perversions than on a life'
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Wayne Couzens snatched Sarah Everard as she walked home in Clapham. Passenger in passing car mistook it for an arrest by an undercover officer. Couzens bought a 'police standard issue handcuff key with double locking pin' from Amazon, which he used on his police-issue cuffs. He booked a hire car online and ordered a 100m roll of carpet protector film from Amazon to line the boot where he eventually kept Sarah's body.
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PC Wayne Couzens, 48, could have been caught six years ago when police failed to probe a flashing complaint against him. He was suspected of two other indecent exposures feared not to have been properly probed by the Met force days before he killed Sarah. Couzens faces becoming the first police officer to be given a whole life sentence after he pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey.
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Dame Cressida Dick defends police response to last night's vigil. She said: 'What has happened makes me more determined, not less, to lead my organisation' Commissioner said she was'very comfortable' with a review into the events at the vigil. PM will today chair a meeting of the Government's Crime and Justice Taskforce with Ms Dick among the attendees.
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Vigil planned in tribute to Sarah Everard is not allowed to go ahead. Organisers' bid to challenge a police decision to ban it failed in court. High Court judge said he would not intervene after Met Police said it would be in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules. Vigil was due to take place at Clapham Common bandstand in south London.