This is the air-conditioned moment Sarah Everard was pictured abandoned in the aback of analgesic cop Wayne Couzens’ appoint car afore he collection her 80 afar to her afterlife – aback ‘she charge accept realised her fate,’ a cloister heard.
Couzens chock-full Miss Everard on the artery and acclimated Covid laws as a artifice to ‘arrest’ the business controlling and force her into his rental car afore raping and beheading her to afterlife in a abominable five-hour ordeal.
Footage taken from a accidental dashcam shows the 33-year-old stood on a pavement on Poynders Alley in Clapham as Couzens, who was cutting handcuffs on his badge belt, speaks to her.
She was afresh apprenticed for two hours to Dover breadth he forcibly confused her from the appoint car into his own atramentous Bench afore continuing forth alien aback anchorage to Hoad’s Wood breadth he raped her, deadened her with his belt and buried her anatomy in a fridge.
Earlier that night, he spent two hours active through axial and south London – prowling Kensington, Lavender Hill and Earls Cloister for a abandoned adolescent woman to abduct – afore stalking Miss Everard and endlessly abutting to her.
The askance Met Protection Administrator can be apparent bearing his accreditation agenda as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions.
Couzens afresh cuffed her easily abaft her back, abrogation her butterfingers of blow the seatbelt he beggared about her afterwards acclimation her into the aback of his rental car.
As the abandoned analgesic watched in the Old Bailey with his arch bowed, Miss Everard’s ancestors heard in alarming detail how Miss Everard spent her final hours afore the confined Metropolitan Badge administrator raped and murdered her, and afresh austere her anatomy in a pre-meditated advance that was weeks in the planning.
Her mother Susan told the Old Bailey: ‘Sarah died in abominable circumstances. I am addled at the anticipation of what she endured.
‘I comedy it out in my mind. I go through the abhorrent arrangement of events. I admiration aback she accomplished she was in bitter danger; I admiration what her assassin said to her. Aback he deadened her, for how connected was she conscious, animate she would die? It is ache to anticipate of it. Sarah was handcuffed.’
Her ancestor Jeremy added: ‘Sarah was abandoned and clumsy to avert herself. This preys on my apperception all the time.
It coincided with a cord of added ailing behaviour which saw the affiliated father-of-two aflame two women in McDonald’s beyond two abstracted incidents.
Witnesses afterwards declared how Miss Everard – who had spent the atramentous at a friend’s abode administration a canteen of wine – appeared ‘compliant’ with her ‘head down’ as the ‘confident-looking’ administrator fabricated what seemed to be a late-night arrest at the acme of lockdown in March.
CCTV footage captured by a accidental bus showed Miss Everard in the aback bench of Couzens’ appoint car afterwards she was falsely ‘arrested’.
Couzens, who aria to his ancestors about animate a night about-face that evening, afresh collection Miss Everard 80 afar to a alien amplitude of alley in his home canton of Kent. Prosecutor Tom Little QC said: ‘She charge accept realised her fate.’
Couzens sitting in the advanced bench of the appoint car, afterwards he falsely ‘arrested’ Miss Everard (who is built-in in the back) alfresco Poynders Cloister on Poynders Road, Clapham
CCTV footage of Miss Everard captured beforehand on the night she was kidnapped in March, sparking a civic hunt
Quizzed by police, Couzens (pictured in handcuffs) aria that he had been ‘leant on’ by an Eastern European assemblage who threatened to abuse his ancestors if he did not accede to aces up a woman
Footage the 33-year-old stood on the pavement with Couzens moments afore he kidnapped her. Miss Everard is below the chicken arrow while Couzens’ arrow is purple
The deranged Met Protection Officer, who was cutting his badge belt absolute handcuffs, can be apparent bearing his accreditation agenda as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions
Miss Everard’s devastated ancestors listened from the accessible arcade as the Old Bailey heard agonizing capacity of how Couzens took her to a rural breadth and raped her, afore afterwards actuality apparent affairs Lucozade and added drinks from BP abject with her anatomy in boot, afterwards she was believed to accept been murdered.
Couzens, 48, prepared for the abduction by affairs a rental car and a breadth of blur from Amazon
Distressing capacity of the timeline advance Miss Everard could accept been animate for added than four hours in the aback of Couzens’ car. She was snatched off the artery by 9.30pm and aback the analgesic pulled into the barn at 2.30am, Sarah is anticipation to accept been in his boot, already dead.
The cloister heard he accepted to a analyst that he had deadened Miss Everard with his belt, and the case said her injuries were connected with ones that would accept been acquired by his badge belt.
Couzens – who had able for the abduction by affairs a rental car and a breadth of blur from Amazon – hid her anatomy axial a fridge in a appliance of rubbish-strewn backcountry afore torching it.
Footage appear by badge showed the moment Couzens busy the car he would go on to use to cruise the streets of London for about two hours afore acrimonious up Miss Everard.
The CCTV blow showed Couzens calmly bedlam with a changeable attendant. He joked ‘you’ve put me on the spot’ while aggravating to bethink his buzz cardinal as she took his details.
He went on to arrangement a Tesco abundance in west London to buy a backpack of 14 hairbands aloof an hour afore Miss Everard was abducted on March 3, afore authoritative added trips to a B&Q two canicule afterwards Miss Everard is believed to accept been killed. He additionally visited a Homebase in Folkestone on the morning of Monday, March 8.
CCTV footage showed the moment he went on to arrangement a BP barn in Dover on Friday, March 5 to buy and ample a petrol brazier – believed to accept been acclimated to bake Miss Everard’s body.
Just canicule afterwards the murder, the father-of-two took his wife and accouchement on a ancestors cruise and accustomed the youngsters to comedy abreast a pond breadth he had dumped Miss Everard’s remains, the case said.
CCTV footage (pictured) captured by a accidental bus showed Miss Everard in the aback bench of Couzens’ appoint car afterwards she was falsely ‘arrested’
Couzens sat in the drivers’ bench of the appoint car afterwards accedence up Miss Everard’s seatbelt in the back
Quizzed by police, he aria that he had been ‘leant on’ by an Eastern European assemblage who threatened to abuse his ancestors if he did not accede to aces up a woman and duke her over to the occupants of a van abreast Maidstone.
Taken to Wandsworth Badge Station, he afresh approved to self-harm by banging his arch on a bore and active into a wall, and was put beneath connected watch afore actualization in court.
Today, Miss Everard’s ancestors and accompany gave victim appulse statements to the Old Bailey. Her father, Jeremy Everard, accepted Couzens accessory at him while he was giving his testimony.
The Old Bailey heard alarming capacity of the confined badge officer’s ambidexterity and Sarah’s final hours afore she was raped, murdered and austere in a pre-meditated advance that was weeks in the planning:
Wayne Couzens accused Sarah Everard of breaking lockdown rules to accomplish a ‘fake arrest’, the Old Bailey heard today.
The policeman acclimated his handcuffs and accreditation agenda to snatch Miss Everard as she absolved home from visiting a acquaintance in Clapham, south London, on the atramentous of March 3.
The animal predator, who had clocked off from a 12-hour about-face that morning, went on to abduction and asphyxiate the 33-year-old business controlling afore ambience blaze to her body.
A anniversary afterwards she disappeared, Miss Everard’s charcoal were begin in a backcountry beck in Ashford, Kent, aloof yards from acreage endemic by Couzens.
Couzens’ car is apparent active forth Cavendish Alley at 9.32pm, aloof annual afore he pulled over and chock-full Miss Everard
Miss Everard was taken out of the appoint car and affected into Couzens’ own car (pictured) in a about-face fabricated at 11.30pm on North Military Alley in Dover, Kent
CCTV taken at 5.52pm on March 3 showed Miss Everard walking forth Craster Alley in Brixton, south London
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CCTV footage showed Couzens adopting his larboard arm captivation a accreditation agenda afore handcuffing Miss Everard and putting her into the appoint car.
A commuter in a accidental car witnessed the kidnapping but mistook it for an arrest by an clandestine officer, the cloister heard.
A woman on the pavement appeared to accept her larboard arm abaft her aback and was in the action of ‘giving her added arm abaft her back’ as a man in aphotic accouterment abandoned her, according to the witness.
Mr Little said: ‘The actual consequence the commuter formed was that she was witnessing an clandestine badge administrator arresting a woman, whom she affected ‘must accept done article wrong’.
‘They were in actuality witnessing the kidnapping of Sarah Everard. She was bedfast by fraud. The actor appliance his accreditation agenda and handcuffs as able-bodied as his added badge affair accessories to affect a apocryphal arrest.’
Sarah Everard was the victim of ‘deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire’, the Old Bailey heard at the alpha of her murderer’s sentencing.
Wayne Couzens was a confined PC with the Metropolitan Badge aback he snatched Miss Everard as she absolved home in Clapham, south London, on the atramentous of March 3.
The animal predator, who had clocked off from a 12-hour about-face that morning, went on to abduction and asphyxiate the 33-year-old business executive.
A anniversary afterwards she disappeared, Miss Everard’s anatomy was begin in a backcountry beck in Ashford, Kent, aloof metres from acreage endemic by Couzens.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC said: ‘The defendant’s artifice of acreage is actual abutting to, and in the aforementioned woods, that he was to bake Sarah Everard’s anatomy afterwards he had murdered her.
‘He afresh confused her anatomy in blooming accoutrements that he had purchased accurately for that assignment to a pond added into the dupe but which was abandoned about 130 metres from his plot.’
Opening the facts, Mr Little said the dematerialization of Miss Everard was one of the best broadly publicised missing actuality investigations the country has anytime seen.
After her anatomy was apparent in woodland, it became summarised by the hashtag ‘she was aloof walking home’, he said.
But that did not absolutely alarm what happened to Miss Everard, the cloister heard.
Mr Little said: ‘Whilst it is absurd to summarise what the actor did to Sarah Everard in aloof bristles words, if it had to be done afresh it would be added adapted to do so as deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire.’
Miss Everard was declared by a aloft abiding admirer as ‘extremely intelligent, adeptness and streetwise’ and ‘not a believing person’, the Old Bailey heard.
He said he could not brainstorm her accepting into a car with addition she did not apperceive ‘unless by force or manipulation’, according to Mr Little.
He said Couzens formed on Covid patrols in backward January this year, administration coronavirus regulations, so would accept accepted what accent to use to those who may accept breached them.
Couzens was said to be cutting his badge belt with handcuffs and a ellipsoidal atramentous pouch, agnate to a pepper aerosol holder, aback he kidnapped Miss Everard.
Mr Little said he snatched Miss Everard in a ‘false arrest’, by ‘handcuffing her and assuming his accreditation card’.
The prosecutor said he charge accept taken her adaptable buzz from her and removed the sim card, which he approved to destroy.
Ahead of the alpha of the two-day hearing, Scotland Yard appear a annual which read: ‘We are sickened, angered and devastated by this man’s crimes which abandon aggregate we angle for.
‘Our thoughts are with Sarah’s ancestors and her abounding friends. It is not accessible for us to brainstorm what they are activity through.
‘We recognise his accomplishments accession abounding questions and apropos but we will not be commenting added until the audition is complete.’
Miss Everard queued at Sainsbury’s with a canteen of red wine as she headed to see a acquaintance for banquet afterwards work
Just hours afore she was abducted and murdered Miss Everard was adequate a accustomed Wednesday evening
Miss Everard absolved from her home to see a acquaintance via a Sainsbury’s in Brixton Hill, south London
Sarah Everard’s admirer Josh Lowth arrives for the sentencing of her killer, policeman Wayne Couzens at the Old Bailey this morning
Couzens (left, in his compatible with his badge belt circled); and right, in a cloister sketch) kidnapped, raped and murdered Miss Everard in abandoned abomination afterwards he had accomplished his shift
Susan Everard (right), Miss Everard’s mother, annual a victim appulse annual as Couzens sits in the dock
Ms Everard’s ancestor Jeremy ordered Couzens to accessory at him as he acicular at him and told him ‘I can never absolve you’
Police chase backcountry abreast to breadth Miss Everard’s anatomy was found. Couzens austere her anatomy and dumped it in a pond
Miss Everard’s dematerialization sparked a huge manhunt and led to an access of acrimony about the assurance of women on the streets
Susan Everard, mother of Sarah Everard
Sarah Everard, 14th June 1987 to March 2021
Susan Everard, Sarah’s mother
‘Sarah is gone and I am burst hearted. She was my adored little girl, our youngest child. The activity of blow is so abundant it is visceral. And with the affliction appear after-effects of agitation at not actuality able to see her again. I can never allocution to her, never authority her again, and never added be a allotment of her life. We accept kept her bathrobe clothes – it still smells of her and I hug that instead of her.
‘Sarah died in abominable circumstances. I am addled at the anticipation of what she endured. I comedy it out in my mind. I go through the abhorrent arrangement of events. I admiration aback she accomplished she was in bitter danger; I admiration what her assassin said to her. Aback he deadened her, for how connected was she conscious, animate she would die? It is ache to anticipate of it. Sarah was handcuffed, clumsy to avert herself and there was no one to accomplishment her. She spent her aftermost hours on this angel with the actual affliction of humanity. She absent her activity because Wayne Couzens capital to amuse his abandoned desires. It is a antic reason, it is nonsensical; how could he amount a animal activity so cheaply? I cannot appreciate it. I am beaming with acerbity at the anticipation of it. He advised my babe as if she was annihilation and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.
‘If Sarah had died because of an illness, she would accept been cared for. We could accept looked afterwards her and been with her. If she had died because of an accident, bodies would accept approved to admonition – there would accept been kindness. But there is no abundance to be had, there is no abating anticipation in the way Sarah died. In her aftermost hours she was faced with atrocity and terror, abandoned with addition absorbed on accomplishing her harm. The anticipation of it is unbearable. I am apparitional by the abhorrence of it.
‘When Sarah went missing we suffered canicule of agony, not animate breadth she was or what had happened to her. Then, aback Sarah’s burnt charcoal were found, we spent two abhorrent canicule cat-and-mouse for tests to actualization how she had died, fearing she had been set afire afore she was asleep – the anticipation was appalling.
‘Burning her anatomy was the final insult, it meant we could never afresh see her candied face and never say goodbye.
‘Our lives will never be the same. We should be a ancestors of five, but now we are four. Her afterlife leaves a alveolate abysm in our lives that cannot be filled. I ache for her. I bethink all the admirable things about her: she was caring, she was funny. She was clever, but she was acceptable at applied things too. She was a admirable dancer. She was a admirable daughter. She was consistently there to listen, to advise, or artlessly to allotment with the development of the day. And she was additionally a acerb conscionable adolescent woman who knew adapted from amiss and who lived by those values. She was a acceptable person. She had purpose to her life.
‘My angle on activity has afflicted aback Sarah died: I am added cautious; I anguish added about our added children. I crave the acquaintance and aegis of home; the added angel has absent its appeal. It is too aching to contemplate a approaching afterwards Sarah, so I aloof animate in the actuality and now. I anticipate of Sarah all the time, but the mornings and evenings are decidedly painful. In the morning I deathwatch up to the abominable absoluteness that Sarah is gone. In the evenings, at the time she was abducted, I let out a bashful scream: Don’t get in the car, Sarah. Don’t accept him. Run!
‘I am repulsed by the anticipation of Wayne Couzens and what he did to Sarah. I am affronted that he masqueraded as a policeman in adjustment to get what he wanted. Sarah capital to get affiliated and accept children, now all that has gone. He took her activity and blanket her approaching and we will never accept the joy of administration that approaching with her. Anniversary day dawns and I think, Sarah should be here, arch her activity and all-embracing new experiences. She had so abounding years advanced of her.
‘I don’t apperceive how anyone could be so atrocious as to booty my daughter’s life. What I do apperceive is that Sarah will never be abandoned and is remembered with great love.
‘I adhere on to memories of Sarah, I authority them bound to accumulate them safe. The added night, I dreamt that Sarah appeared at home. In my dream I captivated her and could feel her physically. Jeremy was there, we were abating her, adage ‘it’s alright Sarah, it’s alright’. I would accord annihilation to authority her already more; I achievement I dream that dream again.’
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Couzens was in debt to the tune of £29,000 at the time of the killing, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Little said: ‘In affiliation to affairs at the actual time his coffer accounts were about overdrawn abandoned actuality brought into acclaim for abbreviate periods either by accomplishment paid in and/or the use of abbreviate appellation payday loans.
‘He had a absolute debt of aloof beneath £29,000 with a cardinal of banking institutions, which were the accountable of a debt administration plan agreed in Oct 2020 with a debt administration company, Payplan, with agreed annual repayments of £235.
‘As at March 2021, the actor additionally had a acclaim agenda annual with NatWest which was in debt (£3460.70); and a PayPal acclaim agenda annual which was additionally in debt (£1580.27); both of which had debt acquittal affairs in abode to accomplish minimum annual payments.’
Couzens was complex in a altercation with the Met over his pay,’ Mr Little said, adding: ‘He talked advisedly to colleagues about this, and the actuality that he was acquisitive to access acknowledged abetment in the abreast future. He had not discussed any added banking problems with colleagues.
‘Most of his colleagues had the consequence that he was a ”family man’.’
The cloister additionally heard how Couzens had been advantageous for sex with escorts and had a Match.com contour beneath a affected name.
Mr Little said: ‘In aboriginal February 2021, the actor was in acquaintance with an escort with username ”escourtbabygirl” through the Adult Assignment Escort Service.’
Later in today’s hearing, Lord Justice Fulford asked the Crown if they were planning on bringing up affirmation he had apparent in accounting submissions that colleagues said Couzens was fractional to ‘brutal animal pornography’.
Mr Little said it had been advisedly omitted. Couzens’ advocate Jim Sturman QC, said it was from 2002 and was irrelevant.
The Old Bailey heard that Couzens and his wife had bought a artifice of backcountry by Ashford, Kent.
Mr Little said: ‘The defendant’s artifice of acreage is actual abutting to, and in the aforementioned woods, that he was to bake Sarah Everard’s anatomy afterwards he had murdered her.
‘He afresh confused her anatomy in blooming accoutrements that he had purchased accurately for that assignment to a pond added into the dupe but which was abandoned about 130 metres from his plot,’ said Mr Little.
In January this year Couzens was animate in ‘Covid patrols’ and was acquainted of coronavirus regulations and the accent acclimated on those who may accept breached them, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Little said that he had ‘arrested’ and abandoned Miss Everard for a aperture afore raping and murdering her.
He continued: ‘These were compatible Covid patrols in which the Covid regulations were enforced. The actor undertook a brace of such shifts.
‘He was accordingly acquainted of the regulations and what accent to use to those who may or may not accept breached them, if speaking to them. He was to use that adeptness to kidnap Sarah Everard.’
Members of the accessible had noticed Couzens cutting his badge belt aback not on duty, with a brace of handcuffs and atramentous pepper aerosol holder.
‘This is the blazon of accessories that it can be accepted that the actor was cutting aback he kidnapped Sarah Everard,’ said Mr Little.
He continued: ‘It was not abnormal for admiral on PaDP to booty claimed careful and added accessories (including anatomy armour and handcuffs) home with them from the Lillie Alley abject – they were adapted to undertake common training, at a cardinal of altered locations, to which they would biking directly.
‘For convenience, they would generally booty home the kit needed.
‘Two associates of the accessible had afar noticed seeing the actor aback he was not on assignment cutting his Badge belt with handcuffs and a ellipsoidal atramentous accessory (similar to a pepper aerosol holder) absorbed to it (whilst out in Deal walking his dog; and aback accessory a bounded computer accouterments adjustment boutique in the town).
‘This is the blazon of accessories that it can be accepted that the actor was cutting aback he kidnapped Sarah Everard.
‘It is adorning that in affiliation to the adventure in the adjustment boutique that aback the buyer asked the actor jokingly if he was ‘into coiled stuff’ aback he referred to the handcuffs that were arresting on the defendant’s belt. The actor said ‘I am an clandestine badge officer’.
‘As he said that the actor chuckled but afresh opened his anorak a little added to acknowledge his Badge affair kit.’
March 5: The case is escalated and the Specialist Abomination Assemblage becomes involved. Couzens, who is due to be off until March 8, letters to assignment that he is adversity with stress. At 2pm he buys two blooming bits accoutrements for £9.94 at B&Q in Dover (pictured)
Couzens formed his aftermost about-face from 7pm on March 2 to 7am the abutting day. It was a announcement at the American Embassy.
Mr Little said: ‘That atramentous the actor discussed the achievability of abrogation the Metropolitan Badge because of the pay altercation and depending on the aftereffect he adeptness go off ailing with stress.
‘This was meant to be the alpha of his aeon of bristles blow days, from Wednesday Mar 3 at 7am to Mar 8 at 7am, aback he was due to acknowledgment to Lillie Alley for a training day.’
The abutting day he had a ailing day but aria to his family, adage he was animate addition night shift.
At this point his wife beatific a bulletin to his mother saying: ‘Wayne had a alarm for overtime about-face tonight. I apprehensive if you could aces accouchement from academy tomorrow, would you?’.
CCTV footage showed the moment he went on to arrangement a BP barn in Dover on Friday, March 5 to buy and ample a petrol brazier – believed to accept been acclimated to bake Miss Everard’s body
Couzens entered a petrol abject in Dover to buy a cannister he would go on to ample with petrol
After his final shift, Couzens collection aback to his home in Kent in his own car, a Seat.
After abrogation home, he best up a Vauxhall Crossland appoint car that he had appointed on February 28.
Jeremy Everard, ancestor of Sarah Everard
Sarah Everard, 14th June 1987 to March 2021
Sarah’s ancestor Jeremy Everard
‘The appulse of what you accept done will never end. The abominable annihilation of my daughter, Sarah, is in my apperception all the time and will be for the blow of my life.
‘A ancestor wants to accessory afterwards his accouchement and fix aggregate and you accept advisedly and with pre- brainwork chock-full my adeptness to do that.
‘Sarah was abandoned and clumsy to avert herself. This preys on my apperception all the time. I can never absolve you for what you accept done, for demography Sarah abroad from us.
‘You burnt our daughter’s anatomy – you added bent us – so that we could not see her again. We did not apperceive whether you had burnt her animate or dead. You chock-full us seeing Sarah for one aftermost time and chock-full me from giving my babe one aftermost kiss goodbye.
‘Her anatomy fell afar aback she was moved. Her academician and abutting basic were removed for months by the pathologist and her anatomy was difficult to canteen so we had to use the casework of a specialist embalmer to accredit a aristocratic burial.
‘All my ancestors appetite is Sarah aback with us. No abuse that you accept will anytime analyze to the affliction and ache that you accept inflicted on us.
‘You murdered our babe and always bankrupt the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, ancestors and her friends.
‘Sarah had so abundant to accessory advanced to and because of YOU this is now gone forever. She was extenuative to buy a abode and attractive advanced to alliance and children. We were attractive advanced to accepting grandchildren. We admired actuality a allotment of Sarah’s angel and accepted her to accept a abounding and blessed life. The abutting we can get to her now is to arrangement her grave every day.’
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Around this time, he had ordered a 100m cycle of carpeting protector blur from Amazon, acclimated to band the cossack breadth he eventually kept Miss Everard’s body
Describing his appearance, Mr Little said: ‘The actor was cutting a atramentous puffa-style anorak with a Barbour logo on the breast pocket, a aphotic dejected hooded jumper with a chicken lining in the hood, a aphotic baseball cap with a white Polo logo on the front, light-grey trousers and atramentous and white trainers.’
During his adventure aback to London, Couzens was captured on CCTV purchasing a backpack of 14 beard bands at a Tesco in Kensington, which was a ‘significant’ acquirement and allotment of his plans.
He proceeded to drive the car about Earls Cloister and added genitalia of axial and south London, bridge the river twice.
‘We say annular avenue taken by the actor as able-bodied as the areas in which he was active are connected with the actor attractive for, absolutely hunting for a abandoned adolescent changeable to kidnap and rape, which is absolutely what he did,’ Mr Little said.
Miss Everard had formed the day of March 3 at home, and planned to go to a friend’s abode abreast Clapham Alliance to accept dinner.
CCTV footage showed the moment she bought a canteen of red wine from a Sainsbury’s on Brixton Hill at 6.30pm afore authoritative her way to see her friend.
After abrogation her friend’s abode about 9pm, Miss Everard fabricated a 14-minute alarm to her boyfriend, aural ‘in acceptable spirits’ and ‘not intoxicated.’
They fabricated affairs to accommodated afterwards that anniversary and concluded the chat normally, with Miss Everard intending to airing home through south London, article she did routinely.
‘That alarm that the aftermost that her family, accompany and colleagues heard from her,’ said the prosecutor.
After declining to argument a acquaintance she was home safe and missing a assignment affair the afterward day, Miss Everard’s admired ones aimlessly attempted to acquisition her and her admirer appear her missing.
‘Her admirer went annular to her collapsed but got no answer,’ Mr Little said. ‘He started to accomplish enquiries with the hospitals and emergency services, and appear Sarah as missing to the police.
‘He additionally fabricated enquiries with added accompany and family, but cipher had heard from her all day.’
The kidnap happened on Poynders Alley (A205), with Couzens travelling in the aforementioned administration as Miss Everard.
In air-conditioned CCTV footage, Couzens is apparent active abaft Miss Everard afore dispatch out of the car and continuing a few all-overs afar from her.
‘We can see the larboard duke of the actor appear appear Sarah Everard as admitting he was assuming her something, we say the accreditation card, and afterwards he charge accept abandoned her,’ said Mr Little.
A brace active accomplished the arena saw Couzens in the action of handcuffing Miss Everard, afore arch her appear the appoint vehicle.
‘The actual consequence the commuter formed was that she was witnessing an clandestine badge administrator arresting a woman, whom she affected ‘must accept done article wrong’,’ said Mr Little
‘They were witnessing the kidnapping of Sarah Everard.
The CCTV blow showed Couzens calmly bedlam with a changeable attendant. He joked ‘you’ve put me on the spot’ while aggravating to bethink his buzz cardinal as she took his details
Footage appear by badge showed the moment Couzens busy the car he would go on to use to cruise the streets of London for about two hours afore acrimonious up Miss Everard
After his final shift, Couzens collection aback to his home in Kent in his own car, a Bench (left). Afterwards abrogation home, he best up a Vauxhall Crossland appoint car (right) that he had appointed on February 28
A ancestors advertisement of Miss Everard that was appear through the Crown Case Annual this afternoon
‘She was bedfast by fraud. The actor appliance his accreditation agenda and handcuffs as able-bodied as his added badge affair accessories to aftereffect a apocryphal arrest.
‘Having abandoned her to the rear she would not accept been able to disengage the seatbelt that the actor charge accept placed over her.
‘That was the alpha of her diffuse affliction including an 80 mile adventure whilst bedfast which was to advance aboriginal to her abduction and afresh her murder.
‘At some point adequately anon afterwards active from the pavement assimilate the South Annular and accepting not gone to a badge abject for example, Sarah Everard charge accept realised her fate.’
A cardinal of areas were searched in Clapham as badge approved to accessory for missing Sarah afore the coursing confused to Kent
Katie Everard, sister of Sarah Everard
Victim claimed statement
Katie Everard, sister of Sarah
‘You advised Sarah as if she was nothing. Placed added accent on acceptable your ailing abominable perversions than on a life. Her life. You disposed of my sister’s anatomy like it was rubbish. Fly-tipped her like she meant nothing. She meant everything. We couldn’t alike see her, she was so abominably burnt. Her academician was removed from her skull to analysis for agony and annual of afterlife – I still don’t apperceive if they put her academician aback in her arch or whether it is lying abutting to her anatomy in her coffin.
‘Shards of her kneecap were alternate to us to be placed with her anatomy – shards that you agape aback affective her burnt anatomy from the fridge you had acclimated to adumbrate her and burrow the fire. We are still missing her hyoid cartilage from her throat, which is actuality arrested to see the force you acclimated to asphyxiate her, to actuate how connected she may accept survived. We apperceive it was broken. Her burnt anatomy still had her chaplet and one adornment in her ear – the added had collapsed from her ear because it had burnt off.
‘You apprehend from the badge that it takes about 2 annual to asphyxiate someone. And about 8- 10 abnormal for them to lose consciousness. At aboriginal there is a faculty of abatement at audition that your sister adeptness abandoned accept been acquainted of what was accident for 8-10 seconds. But accept you put your easily about your abutting and approved blame hard? 8-10 abnormal now seems a connected time.
‘You acclimated your accreditation agenda to ambush my sister into your car. She sat in a car abandoned for hours. What could she accept anticipation she had done wrong? What lies did you acquaint her? Aback did she realise that she wasn’t activity to survive the night?
‘I’m consistently replaying in my arch – did you abduction her, afresh annihilate her? Did you annihilate her while raping her? You get baby nuggets of admonition and the anticipation action starts again. Your berry and claret were begin in your car. So this suggests you raped her in the car. You acquisition out you may accept acclimated a belt to asphyxiate her. New abominable images forming.
‘You chock-full to get a Lucozade and baptize at a petrol station. Was she still animate at this point? Bound in your car? I am abashed by your adeptness to dance amid what you did and accustomed accustomed actions. Your accidental demeanour on CCTV was actual abashing and abominable to see.
‘We had to go to the collapsed and backpack up Sarah’s accomplished activity – abrasion larboard blind up, bisected sewn outfits, deliveries cat-and-mouse to be returned, bales cat-and-mouse at the aperture accessible to be opened. All signs of a activity cat-and-mouse to be lived – affairs to be done, accessible for her to acknowledgment and abide aback she got home. But she never got home because a predator – you – was on the loose. Prowling the streets for hours attractive for his prey.
‘You can’t appreciate what you are actuality told aback it happened because it is so horrific. Some array of ailing animate nightmare. You can’t brainstorm anyone could do such a thing.
‘You are cat-and-mouse to apprehend annihilation from the police. Every bit you get is different. You apprehend her anatomy has been found. Afresh you acquisition out she has been burnt. So abominably burnt you can’t see her. Can’t see her afresh to say goodbye. The aboriginal anticipation you accept in your arch afterwards anguish and shock is – was she asleep afore you burnt her? Brainstorm that alike accepting to be a thought. You acquisition out no charcoal was begin in her lungs which suggests she was burnt afterwards you murdered her. Brainstorm actuality adequate to apprehend your sister was asleep afore she was burnt.
‘I epitomize it continuously annular in my head. What you may accept said to her, what she may accept said back, aback she realised she was in grave crisis and was not activity to survive. Acquisitive my sister was benumbed and drugged, but we apperceive that was not the case – no drugs begin in her body, no agony to the head. Burst claret argosy in her academician from your strangulation. Which meant she was acquainted aback you were accomplishing these abysmal things to her. My abandoned achievement is that she was in a accompaniment of shock and that she wasn’t acquainted of the abominable things actuality done to her by a monster. Aback you affected yourself aloft and raped her. Aback you put your easily about her abutting and deadened her.
‘It disgusts me that you were the aftermost actuality to blow her absolute anatomy and aperture her in the way you did. The aftermost actuality to see her animate and allege to her. How afraid she charge accept been. The aftermost moments of her activity not with admired ones, but abashed and angry for her life. I abhorrence to anticipate of her actuality so afraid and abandoned and that in her aftermost moments she had no one with her. No kindness. I abhorrence that I wasn’t there to save her. To stop you. I acquisition it adamantine to accept she is not aloof active her own activity and ailing at the anticipation that her aftermost moments on this angel animate were so horrific.
‘How cartel you booty her from me? Booty abroad her hopes and dreams. Her life. Accouchement that will never be born. Generations that will never exist. Her approaching no best exists. The approaching I was declared to animate with my sister no best exists. You accept bankrupt so abounding lives.
‘Sarah is the actual best actuality with so abounding bodies who adulation and admire her. I appetite to allege to her and hug her and apprehend her beam and go out for dinners and drinks and dancing. All those conversations we can never have. There were so abounding things I capital to allotment with her – trips abroad, actuality anniversary other’s bridesmaid, affair her babies and actuality an
‘Aunty, growing old calm and seeing who got the best wrinkles. We weren’t alike center through our adventure and you took it all away!
‘I feel like I animate in a acted world. As if annihilation is real. I accept to pretend because the anticipation of not accepting Sarah always is too adamantine to bear. A lifetime now seems a actual connected time.
‘I should never accept to address a acclaim for or coffin my little sister. There is no abuse that you could accept that will anytime analyze to the affliction you accept acquired us. We can never get Sarah back. The aftermost moments of Sarah’s activity comedy on my apperception constantly. I am so disgusted and appalled. It terrifies me that you accept such apathy for a person’s life. You accept taken from me the best adored person. And I can never get her back.’
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The cloister heard Miss Everard’s kidnapping took beneath than bristles minutes.
Harrowing CCTV footage from a clandestine car afresh showed the business controlling in the aback of Couzens car.
‘A nearside rear-facing camera shows a amount in the rear commuter bench (behind the driver),’ Mr Little said.
‘This was audibly Sarah Everard. A amount was additionally sitting in the driver’s seat. This was the defendant.’
Miss Everard was abandoned at about 9.34pm, bedfast in Couzens’ appoint car by 9.37pm and they were on their way to Kent a minute later, Mr Little said.
The cloister was apparent CCTV of the defendant’s appoint agent in Dover anon afterwards 11.30pm as he transferred his victim to his own car, a Seat.
Couzens afresh collection to a alien rural breadth north-west of Dover which he knew able-bodied breadth he anchored up and raped Miss Everard.
Between 1.03am and 2.43am, Couzens alternate to axial Dover with Miss Everard still in his Seat.
Mr Little said the CPS ‘simply can’t say whether it was almost to the abduction or in the hour or two afterwards that’ that Miss Everard was murdered.
The cloister heard the case could not define the exact time Miss Everard was killed.
However, Mr Little said that she charge accept been asleep by about 2.30am aback Couzens pulled into a BP annual abject in Dover to buy a Lucozade, angel juice, two bottles of still baptize and a carrier bag.
He visited Hoads Wood abreast Ashford alert during in the aboriginal morning, abrogation aloof afore sunrise.
The cloister heard he was to acknowledgment to the breadth afterwards the afterward day two added times.
At 8.15am on March 4, Couzens was captured on CCTV in a Costa Coffee boutique in Dover affairs a hot amber and bakewell tart.
He went on to acknowledgment the Vauxhall appoint car accepting apprenticed aloof over 300 miles.
Later that morning (March 4), Couzens threw Miss Everard’s adaptable buzz into a approach at Sandwich, abandoned for it to be retrieved by a diver as allotment of a chase of the waterway.
After administration of the buzz he alternate home, breadth he backward all day.
During the day a bounded dental anaplasty phoned to abolish an arrangement for his two children. He was calm and accepting of this on the phone, Mr Little said.
At about 12.45pm, a bounded man was active accomplished Hoads Wood in Ashford breadth he saw a ‘strong, acute flame’ about three-foot square.
‘This is connected with the breadth breadth the actor burnt Miss Everard’s body, accouterment and backing appliance the petrol he had purchased beforehand that day,’ Mr Little said.
Having burnt Miss Everard’s body, accouterment and backing axial a refrigerator, Couzens went on to alarm the vet about his dog.
In the alarm played in court, Couzens explained that his pet had ‘separation anxiety’.
He afresh bought builders accoutrements at a B&Q in Dover afore abiding to the woods.
Mr Little said: ‘Whilst in the dupe he charge accept confused Sarah Everard’s heavily burnt anatomy from breadth he had set blaze to it, to the pond breadth she was afterwards found.
‘He did so appliance the two accoutrements that he had aloof purchased from B&Q.’
The cloister heard that on Sunday March 7, Couzens took his wife and two accouchement on a ancestors cruise to the dupe breadth abandoned canicule afore he had austere Miss Everard’s body.
En route, he withdrew banknote from the aforementioned annual abject he had been to anon afterwards raping and murdering his victim.
Mr Little said: ‘It follows that the actor took his ancestors on a ancestors cruise to the actual dupe breadth canicule beforehand he had larboard Sarah Everard’s body, afresh alternate to bake it and afresh alternate afresh to move it and adumbrate it.’
Couzens accustomed his accouchement to comedy in ‘relatively abutting adjacency to breadth Miss Everard’s anatomy had been dumped in the pond’, he added.
While on his bristles days’ leave, Couzens had emailed his administrator to say he acquainted ‘unable to backpack firearms’.
The cloister heard this read: ‘Sgt, at this moment in time I feel clumsy to backpack firearms. The accent of my amount bearings is causing me banking implications, I feel absolutely mislead and disillusioned by the way I accept been recruited and the abridgement of measures to acquisition a band-aid from HR.
‘I accept been absolutely honest from the alpha all through my appliance to present. I accept provisionally fabricated an arrangement with my GP to seek advice. I anticipation I was in a acceptable abode afterwards abiding from abrasion however, this is not the case and I feel added of a accountability due to the accepted bearings I acquisition myself in. I will accumulate you adapted throughout.’
The afterward day – March 9 – Couzens went to Homebase to acknowledgment a flat-pack trolley. A affiliate of agents did not apprehension ‘anything adverse about his demeanour’ during a 10-minute exchange, Mr Little said.
On March 4 Couzens threw Miss Everard’s adaptable buzz into a approach at Sandwich, abandoned for it to be retrieved by a diver as allotment of a chase of the waterway. Pictured, Couzens’ car was anchored at Guildhall Car Park for ten minutes
Couzens’ car is pictured accession at New Artery in Sandwich at 9.32am on March 4
Miss Everard’s ancestors leave the Old Bailey afterwards a antecedent audition breadth Couzens fabricated two accusable pleas. Her ancestor Jeremy is apparent on the left, with her sister Katie can be apparent on the right.
Dramatic badge bodycam footage has appear how Wayne Couzens approved to circuit affecting lies afterwards badge raided his Kent home over the annihilation of Sarah Everard.
The 48-year-old administrator could be apparent in a seven-minute video blow abandoned on his daybed actuality interviewed by arresting admiral in his advanced allowance in Deal on March 9.
Couzens initially claimed to the detectives that he did not apperceive Miss Everard, but moments afterwards affected a antic fantasy adventure involving an Eastern European assemblage who had pressured him afterwards he attempted to ‘rip off’ one of their alarm girls.
Appearing analytic relaxed, Couzens told badge that he had got into ‘financial s***’ and had been ‘lent on by, I don’t apperceive who they are, an immigrant gang, whatever, and they told me I charge to go and aces up girls and accord them to them’.
The apocryphal traffickers allegedly threatened to abuse his ancestors if he did not accommodate them with a victim, and he acquainted he had ‘no choice’ but to snatch Miss Everard.
However, at the alpha of the video, Couzens suggests he has never met Miss Everard, who was the accountable of a aloft missing bodies enquiry at the time.
Couzens is apparent a annual of Miss Everard on a adaptable buzz and is asked: ‘Do you apperceive Sarah’, but he replies: ‘I don’t, no.’
Asked if he knew breadth she is, he says: ‘No’. And asked if he knows annihilation about what happened to her, Couzens afresh says: ‘I apperceive that she went missing up in London about about a anniversary ago or so aloof from what I got on the news.’
While speaking, his cat is apparent walking through the allowance and jumping assimilate a shelf. Asked if he had alone met her, Miss Everard says: ‘No, not personally, no.’
Metropolitan Badge administrator Wayne Couzens is apparent a photograph of Sarah Everard on a buzz by a detective while actuality questioned by badge at his home in Deal, Kent, in March
He is afresh asked if he had had any ‘personal interactions with her’, but says: ‘Why would I accept claimed interactions with her?’
The detective says that he can’t go into all the evidence, but Couzens replies: ‘I’m sat in handcuffs… so you charge accept article to say that I apperceive her.’
Pressed by the detective, Couzens tells him: ‘I am in banking s*** and I’ve been lent on by, I don’t apperceive who they are, an immigrant gang, whatever, and they told me I charge to go and aces up girls and accord them to them.
‘So I said I’ll happily… and it afresh came through that they are activity to abuse my family, booty them away, use them instead. At that point I had no advantage to try and acquisition somebody.’
He continues: ‘There was a brace of names, I was told a abode to booty her, that’s it, that is all I know.’
The detective asks him to acquaint him about the gang. Couzens says: ‘OK, there was a white Sprinter van. They are amid array of Lenham, Maidstone breadth that I alone her off.
‘I still don’t know, they just, I don’t know, I aloof anchored my car up and afresh the van appear up abaft me, flashed me, afresh they all jumped out and afresh they [inaudible] this girl.
‘They said ‘you done good’ and I don’t apperceive whether my family’s activity to be alright still. They threatened to booty my ancestors abroad from me, so, at that point, I’m accomplishing what I can to assure my ancestors – that’s it.
‘So all I apperceive it was, roundabout, we could drive there now, I could actualization you, roughly, I don’t know, Lenham, Maidstone breadth at all.’
The detective suggests assuming him the avenue on Google Maps, and Couzens says: ‘I collection from Ashford to Maidstone. There’s a ambagious that break up, the aboriginal big ambagious you appear to.
‘You backpack beeline over to Maidstone, but instead I went annular that ambagious and aback up addition alley and at that point I was flashed and pulled over.
‘Three guys got out, opened my door, opened that aperture and pushed me out adjoin the advanced of the car, took the girl, collection off, that’s it. They said: ‘We’ll be in touch.’
‘So I’m here, I’m off assignment with accent because I’m actuality to assure my family. I appetite to be actuality 24/7 for my family. They appear for my family… I’ve got nothing… I’ve got no choice.’
The detective says he will go aback over the avenue with Couzens, but asks him how the declared assemblage contacted him or he contacted them.
Couzens says: ‘I approved to f*** over on one of their alarm girls and approved to rip her off, so she’s told them and they’ve got me. They aloof acquaint me be here, be here, so Hotel Burstin in Folkestone, be here.
‘So I angry up. But I’ve got no adaptable number, and they accept [sic] got my adaptable cardinal – they’re acutely alfresco watching, following… I just, honestly.
‘They’ll appear outside, so they’ll be alfresco here, afresh they’ll say right, you’ll be in Folkestone this time, or you’re activity to be in Ashford this time. That’s it.
‘There’s no links, blast numbers, I’m absolutely on my own, but at the aforementioned time actuality threatened. It had Romanian plates on the van, white Mercedes Sprinter-type van.’
When apprenticed as to breadth Sarah Everard was, he said afresh that he did not apperceive breadth she was and that ‘if I could do article to get her aback adapted this minute, I would’, but at the aforementioned time he said ‘I’ll do it afresh tomorrow if it meant extenuative my family… these guys meant business.’
He claimed he had affirmation of that admonition in his adaptable phone, but aback admiral advised it they begin it had been wiped apple-pie by Couzens.
At the badge station, Couzens beneath to accommodate samples of his DNA, adage it was on admonition from his solicitor.
And aback asked how he had abiding ‘visible blemish marks to his head’ he abhorrent them on his dog.
There was a huge chase for Sarah Everard afterwards she went missing afterwards visiting a acquaintance afore her charcoal were begin in Kent
An analysis begin the analgesic was lying, with no cartage like the one he declared as acceptance to the affected abyss actuality apparent on CCTV.
He was taken to Wandsworth Badge Station, breadth he banned to accommodate affectionate samples, the cloister heard.
A ample cardinal of cogent items were afresh begin at his home, prosecutor Mr Little said. These included:
Couzens larboard the Tesco Superstore in Kensington, west London, afterwards affairs a backpack of 14 hairbands at 8pm on March 3
A ample cardinal of cogent items were afresh begin at his home, prosecutor Mr Little said. These included the biscuit hairbands he was apparent affairs in Tesco (pictured)
On March 10, a badge chase dog aggregation scoured Hoads Wood.
Mr Little declared the moment Miss Everard’s anatomy was begin partially abysmal in a pond axial builders bags.
He said: ‘Several dogs best up some aroma and drew the absorption of their handlers to a baby pond.
‘Initially abandoned the handles of a blooming builder’s bag were arresting aloft the apparent of the water.
‘Two of the dogs entered the baptize and adumbrated absorption in the bag. As one of the dogs confused away, the bag appeared to appear apart from the attic of the pond, amphibian upwards and aperture up…
‘One of the admiral appear that he could see what appeared to be a anatomy in the bag.’
Miss Everard had been abominably austere and was still cutting a chaplet and gold-coloured ear-ring.
Couzens told a analyst he deadened Miss Everard with his badge belt, which tallied with the abstracts of a post-mortem assay which begin she died from compression of the neck.
Two days’ later, a burnt fridge was begin in the woods. Affirmation adapted Miss Everard’s anatomy was axial afore actuality burned.
Miss Everard’s afterlife sparked an access of grief, abuse and a alternation of protests at the amount of abandon adjoin women
Blood analogous that of Miss Everard was found in the advanced commuter seat, rear seats and cossack of Couzens’ Seat. There was additionally affirmation that she had been raped.
On March 10, the analgesic told a aegis assistant that he ‘experiences all-overs and depression’.
After actuality re-arrested for Miss Everard’s murder, he advisedly hit his arch on the toilet basin in his cell, abiding a cut to his head, and was taken to St George’s Hospital.
He told a assistant he was experiencing ‘suicidal thoughts’.
When asked how he was activity in a badge interview, he said: ‘I’m in a aphotic place’.
When the annual resumed, he answered ‘no comment’ to all questions asked.
On Friday March 12, Couzens self-harmed afresh by carefully active into the coffer of his corpuscle arch first.
He afresh banged his arch adjoin a coffer while cat-and-mouse for an ambulance.
Couzens was answerable with the annihilation and kidnap of Sarah Everard on the atramentous of March 12.
Mr Little QC told the court: ‘He remained quiet with a bargain gaze, but answered questions affably aback prompted.
‘He was placed beneath connected watch until he aboriginal appeared in the Magistrates’ cloister the afterward morning.’
On Thursday March 18, a badge diving aggregation begin a adaptable buzz in the River Stour, which runs alongside Fellowship Airing in Sandwich.
The handset was forensically examined, and articular as Miss Everard’s argent Angel iPhone.
The handset did not accommodate a SIM card.
Police appear this mugshot of assassin badge administrator Couzens afterwards he accepted the alarming abomination beforehand this year
Reading a annual at the Old Bailey, Susan Everard said: ‘Sarah died in abominable circumstances. I am addled at the anticipation of what she endured.
‘Sarah was handcuffed, clumsy to avert herself, and there was no one to accomplishment her. She spent the aftermost hours on this angel with the actual affliction of humanity.
‘She absent her activity because Wayne Couzens capital to amuse his abandoned desires. It is a antic reason. It is nonsensical. How could he amount a animal activity so cheaply?
‘I am beaming with acerbity at the anticipation of it. He advised my babe as if she was annihilation and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.’
Mrs Everard said she was ‘repulsed’ by the anticipation of what Couzens did.
She added: ‘I am affronted that he masqueraded as a policeman in adjustment to get what he wanted.’
Jeremy Everard accepted that her daughter’s analgesic accessory at him as he delivered an affecting victim appulse annual in court.
He told Couzens: ‘I can never absolve you for what you accept done, for demography Sarah abroad from us.
‘You burnt our daughter’s anatomy – you added bent us – so that we could not see her again.’
Couzens appeared to agitate in the berth as Mr Everard went on: ‘You murdered our babe and always bankrupt the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, ancestors and her friends.
‘Sarah had so abundant to accessory advanced to and because of you this has now gone forever.’
Weeping as she apprehend her statement, Katie Everard said: ‘You acclimated your accreditation agenda to ambush my sister into your car. She sat in a car abandoned for hours.
‘What could she accept anticipation she had done wrong? What lies did you acquaint her? Aback did she realise that she wasn’t activity to survive the night?
‘My abandoned achievement is that she was in a accompaniment of shock and that she wasn’t acquainted of the abominable things actuality done to her by a monster. Aback you affected yourself aloft her and raped her.’
Chilling footage shows Wayne Couzens arcade for bits bags, hairbands and a jerry can abounding of petrol he would use in the kidnap, abduction and annihilation of Sarah Everard.
Wayne Couzens, 48, acclimated his Metropolitan Police-issue accreditation agenda and handcuffs to snatch Ms Everard as she absolved home from a friend’s abode in Clapham, south London, on the atramentous of March 3.
The accoutrements officer, who had clocked off from a 12-hour about-face at the American admiral that morning, collection to a abandoned rural breadth abreast Dover in Kent, breadth he raped Ms Everard.
In advancing footage, appear by the Met Badge today, Couzens is apparent on March 3, the night of Ms Everard’s disappearance, at a Tesco Superstore in Kensington, west London, at 8pm.
He buys a backpack of 14 beard bands, which were said to be a ‘significant’ acquirement and allotment of his plans.
Couzens had deadened marketing executive Ms Everard, who lived in Brixton, south London, with his badge belt at or afore 2.30am the afterward morning.
On March 5, at 11.05am, Couzens is apparent affairs a petrol brazier and bushing it up at a BP forecourt in Whitfield, Dover.
Three hours later, CCTV shows him wearing a anemic dejected face affectation while arcade at a B&Q accouterments boutique in Dover, breadth he buys two blooming bits accoutrements for £9.94.
Pictured: A brazier acclimated by Wayne Couzens in the kidnap, abduction and annihilation of Sarah Everard
Pictured: Items recovered from the car acclimated by Wayne Couzens in the annihilation of Sarah Everard
Pictured: Allotment of the accessories acclimated by Wayne Couzens in the killing of Sarah Everard
Pictured: Wayne Couzens’ accessories recovered from his badge locker
Among exhibits the badge acclimated to bolt Couzens was a cycle of artificial attic protector tape
Pictured: Handcuffs recovered from Wayne Couzens’ assignment locker afterward the annihilation of Sarah Everard
Couzens bought a backpack of 14 beard bands, which were said to be a ‘significant’ acquirement and allotment of his plans
A key recovered from the car acclimated by Wayne Couzens, who asleep Sarah Everard
Ms Everard’s mother Susan said at the Old Bailey today that Couzens ‘treated my babe as if she was annihilation and disposed of her as if she was rubbish’.
She added: ‘When Sarah’s burnt charcoal were found, we spent two abhorrent canicule cat-and-mouse for tests to actualization how she had died, fearing she had been set afire afore she was asleep – the anticipation was appalling.
‘Burning her anatomy was the final insult, it meant we could never afresh see her candied face and never say goodbye.’
On March 6 Couzens ordered a tarpaulin and a bungee burden net on Amazon, which were alien to him on March 7.
He afresh calls in ailing on March 8, aback he was due to acknowledgment to work.
On March 9 his buzz is wiped of all abstracts at 7.11pm, beneath than an hour afore he is arrested at his home in Deal, Kent, at 7.50pm.
The abutting day, Ms Everard’s anatomy was apparent in a wooded breadth of Ashford, Kent, about 100 metres from acreage endemic by Couzens.
Pictured: Accessories recovered from Wayne Couzens’ assignment locker afterward Ms Everard’s death
Lubricating clabber recovered from the car acclimated by Wayne Couzens, who asleep Sarah Everard
Three hours later, CCTV shows him cutting a anemic dejected face affectation while arcade at a B&Q accouterments boutique in Dover, breadth he buys two blooming bits accoutrements for £9.94
On March 5, at 11.05am, Couzens is apparent affairs a petrol brazier and bushing it up at a BP forecourt in Whitfield, Dover
Miss Everard’s dematerialization sparked a huge manhunt and led to an access of acrimony about the assurance of women on the streets
Wayne Couzens (left, in his compatible with his badge belt circled; and right, in a cloister sketch) kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in abandoned crimes afterwards he had accomplished his shift
In advancing footage, appear by the Met Badge today, Couzens is apparent on March 3, the night of Ms Everard’s disappearance, at a Tesco Superstore in Kensington, west London, at 8pm
She was afterwards formally articular by dental records.
On Wednesday, Ms Everard’s parents and sister accursed her analgesic as he sat agitation in the berth with his arch angled at the alpha of his sentencing at the Old Bailey.
Her ancestor Jeremy Everard accepted the analgesic accessory at him as he said: ‘I can never absolve you for what you accept done, for demography Sarah abroad from us.’
Susan Everard said she was ‘incandescent with rage’ at what he had done, adage he disposed of her babe ‘as if she was rubbish’.
She added: ‘I am affronted that he masqueraded as a policeman in adjustment to get what he wanted.’
Sister Katie Everard wept as she said: ‘My abandoned achievement is that she was in a accompaniment of shock and that she wasn’t acquainted of the abominable things actuality done to her by a monster. Aback you affected yourself aloft her and raped her.’
Met Badge Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick additionally abounding cloister to apprehend how one of her own admiral had abused his position and acclimated his accreditation agenda to kidnap Ms Everard ‘by fraud’ afore detaining her ‘by force’.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC adapted the case was so aberrant and aberrant that it could accreditation a accomplished activity order, acceptation Couzens would die in jail.
Opening the facts of the case, he said Ms Everard’s dematerialization was one of the best broadly publicised missing actuality investigations the country has anytime seen.
After her anatomy was apparent a anniversary later, it became summarised on amusing media by the hashtag ‘she was aloof walking home’, which did not absolutely alarm what had happened, he said.
‘Whilst it is absurd to summarise what the actor did to Sarah Everard in aloof bristles words, if it had to be done afresh it would be added adapted to do so as deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire,’ said Mr Little.
The cloister heard Ms Everard was declared by a aloft abiding admirer as ‘extremely intelligent, adeptness and streetwise’ and ‘not a believing person’.
He said he could not brainstorm her accepting into a car with addition she did not apperceive ‘unless by force or manipulation’, said the prosecutor.
Couzens had formed on uniformed Covid patrols in backward January to accomplish coronavirus regulations, so would accept accepted what accent to use to those who may accept breached them, he continued.
He is anticipation to accept been cutting his badge belt with handcuffs and a ellipsoidal atramentous pouch, agnate to a pepper aerosol holder, aback he kidnapped Ms Everard as she absolved home.
‘The actuality she had been to a friend’s abode for banquet at the acme of the aboriginal 2021 lockdown fabricated her added accessible to and added acceptable to abide to an allegation that she had acted in aperture of the Covid regulations in some way,’ said Mr Little.
The cloister heard how Couzens had appointed a appoint car afore activity out ‘hunting’ for a abandoned adolescent changeable to kidnap and rape.
Chilling CCTV footage played in cloister showed Couzens adopting his larboard arm, captivation a accreditation card, afore handcuffing Ms Everard and putting her into the aback of the car.
A accidental brace witnessed the kidnapping but mistook it for an arrest by an clandestine officer, the cloister heard.
Mr Little said: ‘She was bedfast by fraud. The actor appliance his accreditation agenda and handcuffs as able-bodied as his added badge affair accessories to aftereffect a apocryphal arrest.’
Couzens formed for the Parliamentary and Adept Protection Command afterwards abutting the Met in 2018, accepting transferred from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
He was sacked by the force afterwards entering accusable pleas.
Scotland Yard said in a annual advanced of the sentencing hearing: ‘We are sickened, angered and devastated by this man’s crimes which abandon aggregate we angle for.’
Lord Justice Fulford adjourned the case until Thursday aback he will duke bottomward his sentence.
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