Couzens was in debt to the tune of 29,000 at the time of the killing, the Old Bailey heard. "I can't sum her up in a few well-chosen words, nor express what she meant to me by sharing memories. The update comes just hours after the detained police officer, Wayne Couzens was arrested on suspicion of murder and allegations of indecent exposure. She added: 'We've released two new images of Sarah as we continue to search for her. The Metropolitan Police added the Directorate of Professional Standards is aware of the arrests. The increasingly desperate search for Sarah Everard yesterday narrowed to rainswept woodland 55 miles from where she went missing. The investigation is being treated as a missing person's enquiry, but due to its complex nature it is being led by the Met's Specialist Crime Command. 'You should expect to see continued high levels of police patrols in that area as well as very significant investigative activity.'. Dan Sales hitType: 'event', A roll of adhesive film that had been ordered on February, inside a cardboard box on the floor in a bedroom; Beige-coloured hairbands and a penis pump from a storage unit in the bedroom; Police kit bag containing a ballistic vest and other items. 'vanished into thin air' after leaving a friend's house in Clapham, south London at around 9pm on Wednesday, March 3. He told a nurse he was experiencing 'suicidal thoughts'. He has never disclosed the identity of his parents and . The business closed in 2015. He had not discussed any other financial problems with colleagues. They issued an image of her from a supermarket CCTV camera buying wine on the way to her friend. It is particularly stressed that insofar as counsel's extensive researches indicate, there has never been a whole life term which does not come within the categories set out expressly in the relevant provisions. There are some people you know for a relatively short time, but whom you instantly strike up a close bond with due to your similarities - Sarah was one of these people. 'You carry straight over to Maidstone, but instead I went round that roundabout and back up another road and at that point I was flashed and pulled over. The fifth question is the most difficult. She was later formally identified by dental records. 'I don't know how anyone could be so cruel as to take my daughter's life. Between 1.03am and 2.43am, Couzens returned to central Dover with Miss Everard still in his Seat. 'But unfortunately the majority of people who in the police service are men, so it's put down to banter and it's put down to 'oh, you can't take a joke'. We know it was broken. Read about our approach to external linking. Her future no longer exists. They would not say when or where the allegation related to. let gads_event; 'He started to make enquiries with the hospitals and emergency services, and reported Sarah as missing to the police. She didn't speak very good English. I miss you today, and every single day". We miss her all the time. Q.2 How old is Josh Lowth? Couzens' lawyer Jim Sturman QC, said it was from 2002 and was irrelevant. The Police Federation said 'predator' Couzens was 'an absolute disgrace to the police service'. Josh was born in 1987 in Brixton, London, United Kingdom. Please share and contact me if you hear anything.' I can never talk to her, never hold her again, and never more be a part of her life., Our lives will never be the same, she said. We have kept her dressing gown - it still smells of her and I hug that instead of her. The post was shared with a thoughtful illustration by artist Charlie Mackesy that said, "Please help find Sarah Everard. 'We are so grateful to the police and all our friends for all they are doing. Mr Little said: 'Whilst it is impossible to summarise what the defendant did to Sarah Everard in just five words, if it had to be done then it would be more appropriate to do so as deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire.'. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('impressionViewable', function(event) { Mr Sturman said Couzens's guilty pleas had saved the Everards 'the terror' of what the verdicts would be. As to question five, Mr Sturman submits that a whole life tariff is an unusual, indeed exceptional form of sentence, that needs to be carefully and unambiguously justified, in that a borderline case should always be met with a determinate term. 'The court has now heard the evidence that showed his deliberate planning, and continued efforts to cover up his crimes. Giving evidence at the inquest opening, acting DI Lee Tullett gave a brief outline of Everards disappearance, noting that she had left a friends house in Clapham, south London, at 9pm on 3 March. 3pm: Met Police confirm the arrested man is anofficer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command. Couzens was involved in a dispute with the Met over his pay,' Mr Little said, adding: 'He talked freely to colleagues about this, and the fact that he was hoping to obtain legal assistance in the near future. },false) She sat in a car handcuffed for hours. She was detained by fraud. The whole family is and all our friends. The judge made the killer stand and face the court - but he kept his head bowed - as he handed down a whole life term reserved for around 70 of Britain's most dangerous criminals including serial killers and terrorists. March 6: Met Police release an appeal, saying Sarah was thought to have walked through Clapham Common, heading towards Brixton home, a journey of 50 minutes. Josh Berry, replacing the injured Alex Bowman, shares a laugh with crew chief Alan Gustafson during Saturday's NASCAR Cup practice at Dover International Speedway. You have utterly betrayed your family. They have powers of coercion and control that are in an exceptional category. We remember all the lovely things about Sarah - her compassion and kindness, her intelligence, her strong social conscience. I am haunted by the horror of it. He visited Hoads Wood near Ashford twice during in the early morning, leaving just before sunrise. But they didn't move in for two hours, allowing Couzens who may have spotted the plain-clothed officers to wipe his phone at 7.11pm. Her father Jeremy, a professor of electronics at the University of York, and mother Sue, left their 700,000 York home to join the round-the-clock search for their daughter. The future I was supposed to live with my sister no longer exists. Prowling the streets for hours looking for his prey. Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter And when asked how he had sustained 'visible scratch marks to his head' he blamed them on his dog. gads_event = event; I can only say that Sarah was a very special person and will be missed by so many.". Each day dawns and I think, Sarah should be here, leading her life and embracing new experiences. 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Lord Justice Fulford asked the Crown if they were planning on bringing up evidence he had seen in written submissions that colleagues said Couzens was partial to 'brutal sexual pornography'. He shook slightly as he was jailed in front of his victim's family, who calmly looked on from the well of the court. As I have already rehearsed, there was significant planning and premeditation; the victim was abducted; there was the most serious sexual conduct; the defendant was responsible for significant mental and physical suffering which he inflicted on the victim before her death; and the defendant concealed and attempted to destroy Sarah Everard's body. 8-10 seconds now seems a long time. Who is Josh Lowth? He came to visit with the children and we all walked to the river and he helped me at home and in the garden.'. Don't believe him. Mr Lowth, 33, whose LinkedIn says he is Marketing Director at MA Exhibitions, later raised the alarm to police when she failed to meet him as she had arranged, her aunt confirmed. By statute, cases that have a starting point of a whole life order are those when the seriousness of the offence (or the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it) is exceptionally high. The checks confirmed there was no information available to the Met at the time that would have changed the vetting decision. document.querySelector("#ads").addEventListener('click',function(){ Wayne Couzens held a position of trust as a police officer and we are outraged and sickened that he abused this trust in order to lure Sarah to her death. Appearing reasonably relaxed, Couzens told police that he had got into 'financial s***' and had been 'lent on by, I don't know who they are, an immigrant gang, whatever, and they told me I need to go and pick up girls and give them to them'. 05:18 EDT 30 Sep 2021 Martin Robinson Chief Reporter For Mailonline she was raped and strangled to death. Miss Everard comes from York, studied at Durham University, and moved to the capital for work around 12 years ago. Mrs Roy added: 'He loved being a police officer. 'Burning her body was the final insult, it meant we could never again see her sweet face and never say goodbye.'. Burst blood vessels in her brain from your strangulation. If she had died because of an accident, people would have tried to help - there would have been kindness. In between leaving the family firm and becoming a Met officer, Wayne Couzens did a spell in the territorial army and worked at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had firearms training, as part of the team protecting Dungeness nuclear power station. 'We are here to support the community and we genuinely want to help in any way we can.'. Mr Little said he snatched Miss Everard in a 'false arrest', by 'handcuffing her and showing his warrant card'. The married police officer was never involved in the search operation for Sarah and it is thought he was detained at his home in Deal, Kent, shortly after finishing a relief shift at the US Embassy in Nine Elms, south west London. Her comments came as former Scotland Yard chief inspector Parm Sandhu warned how that in her experience, male officers close rank against female colleagues who raise concerns about their behaviour at work. I have concluded that given the planning and the thought that went into the kidnapping and rape of his victim, the defendant must have realised that he may well need to kill the woman he intended to abduct and rape, but this did not become a definite outcome until the events had started to unfold and he had got the measure, as it were, of the person he had attacked. Lowth is a 33-year-old marketing director from Brixton who was in a relationship with 33-year-old 'missing' Everard. The thought of it is unbearable. 2023 BBC. Unflinching in her ability to listen and empathise. Notwithstanding his guilty pleas for which he is entitled to the appropriate full credit as a mitigating factor, in my view the defendant has throughout sought to minimise his true responsibility for what occurred, something he had done from the moment he first spoke to the police and lied about the Balkan people- trafficking gang. 'You murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends. Nonetheless, I need to stress that I have had regard to the defendant's guilty plea to all the charges as one of the mitigating features to be taken fully into account, along with his age (48), his hitherto good character and the fact that he is the father of two children. The court heard how Couzens had booked a hire car before going out 'hunting' for a lone young female to kidnap and rape. He then banged his head against a wall while waiting for an ambulance. Wayne Couzens treated her with vile depravity. Wayne Couzens accused Sarah Everard of breaking lockdown rules to make a 'fake arrest'. On March 9 his phone is wiped of all data at 7.11pm, less than an hour before he is arrested at his home in Deal, Kent, at 7.50pm. He wasn't at the time of the homicide, quite obviously. The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, was opened and adjourned after a brief hearing, and a decision as to whether it will be reopened will be taken after the trial of serving police officer Wayne Couzens. Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled. 2 - A male motorist reported a man for driving naked from the waist down in 2015. He then calls in sick on March 8, when he was due to return to work. Mr Lowth begged people to help locate his 'beautiful friend'. 'Everything revealed yesterday suggests Couzens has behaved in this way before. Sarahs boyfriend Josh Lowth was one of many people who reported her missing back in March when she disappeared while walking home. When she was taken, Ms Everard was less than a mile from her flat in Brixton. It wasn't the first time. As to the third question, the significance of the account given by the defendant to Dr Latham, I accept this is not a verbatim account of what the defendant said, and it is only a summary for the purposes of the psychiatrist's consideration of the defendant's mental state. In the evenings, at the time she was abducted, I let out a silent scream: Don't get in the car, Sarah. Couzens' defence lawyer Jim Sturman claimed his client, 48, is 'filled with self-loathing, abject shame and remorse' for killing Miss Everard, 33, despite his clientnever offering any explanation or public apology for what he has done. 'The officer said they were from the Met and looking for a 'high risk missing person'.They had the helicopters out with their searchlights on until about 4am. Speaking at Mr Lowth's family home in Sidcup, Kent, his father Chris told MailOnline: 'We are concerned, like everybody is. }); 'We're all pulling together and praying that this awful situation is quickly resolved. 'Most of his colleagues had the impression that he was a ''family man'.'. Ms Everard's mother Susan said at the Old Bailey that Couzens 'treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish'. She sat in a car handcuffed for hours. 'I found out that a police officer had been arrested through the media last night. ', A neighbour at the 200,000 three-bedroom house in Deal, Kent, that Mr Couzens shares with his 'chatty' wife and two young children said: 'They just seemed like a normal, regular family. 'A nearside rear-facing camera shows a figure in the rear passenger seat (behind the driver),' Mr Little said. Lowth is a 33-year-old marketing director from Brixton who was in a relationship with 33-year-old 'missing' Everard. Officers were also seen photographing a motorbike in the property's garage. You can't imagine anyone could do such a thing. On board the worlds last surviving turntable ferry. He spent 20 years working at his family's garage business, BCB Dover, established in 1967. Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin said on Tuesday that the arrest was a 'significant development' in the investigation, adding: 'This is a fast moving investigation and we are doing everything we can to find Sarah. 08:42, 12 Mar 2021. 'That call that the last that her family, friends and colleagues heard from her,' said the prosecutor. After leaving her friend's house around 9pm, Miss Everard made a 14-minute call to her boyfriend, sounding 'in good spirits' and 'not intoxicated.'. 'Sarah was handcuffed, unable to defend herself, and there was no one to rescue her. Josh Lowth is an Experienced, senior marketer. The 33-year-old marketing executive went missing on March 3 as she was walking from a friend's in Clapham to her home in Brixton - a journey that should have taken around 50 minutes. Their conversation lasted about 15 minutes, ending shortly before 9.30pm. As one of the dogs moved away, the bag appeared to come loose from the floor of the pond, floating upwards and opening up 'One of the officers reported that he could see what appeared to be a body in the bag.'. Within 3 days of the murder the defendant took his family on a trip to the woods, close by to where he had deposited, burnt, moved and hid the body of Sarah Everard, allowing his children to play in that area. This preys on my mind all the time. It is unknown precisely where or when he raped Sarah Everard, although it was most likely to have occurred between midnight and quarter to one. 'You burnt our daughter's body - you further tortured us - so that we could not see her again.'. Later during 5 March, he moved Sarah Everard's body to a pond that was close by in Hoads Wood, where she was eventually discovered, having used two bags purchased from B & Q in order to transport her remains. ET. Ultimately. Also yesterday, former DCI Simon Harding, who was a senior investigator on Miss Everard's case, said that 'police officers do not view Wayne Couzens as a police officer' and that he 'should never have been near a uniform'. Couzens first joined Scotland Yard from Kent Police after working at a family garage repairs business in Dover and a spell in the Territorial Army. Couzens's old boss Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is facing calls to resign in the wake of the murder amid demands for urgent action to restore the confidence of women in the police. The 33-year-old is understood to have left her friend's house through a back gate onto the A205 South Circular at around 9pm on March 3. I cannot comprehend it. I have borne in mind the fact that the defendant pleaded guilty in deciding whether it is appropriate to make a whole life order. Olena'ssister-in-law says the family still don't understand why he murdered her and their 'heads are spinning' from trying to come to terms with it. 'That should be enough to confirm identity, we believe. Couzens cut a pathetic figure as he refused to raise his head in the dock as Sarah Everard's family told him of their torment, rage and being haunted by her final hours. The closest we can get to her now is to visit her grave every day. 11:33, 11 Mar 2021 'We will continue to work with all speed on this investigation but the fact that the arrested man is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing. Last Wednesday she visited a friend's house in Leathwaite Road, Clapham, leaving there at about 9pm. Officers also search a pond in Clapham Common and drains along the A205, Cordon around the Poynders Court housing complex on Poynders Road, forensics officers on scene. You have ruined so many lives. March 8: Specialist officers are drafted and 120 calls from public come in. It is not possible for us to imagine what they are going through. Miss Everard was described by a former long-term boyfriend as 'extremely intelligent, savvy and streetwise' and 'not a gullible person', the Old Bailey heard. A source told The Times that detectives have not yet found link between the suspect and his alleged victim. 'You hear from the police that it takes around 2 minutes to strangle someone. When you forced yourself upon her and raped her.'. 'We are instructing our officers, the policy going forward will be that they must facilitate a greater trust. Mr Little said it had been deliberately omitted. Criminal psychologist Dr David Holmes agreed police should appeal for any more potential victims of Couzens. Couzens had strangled marketingexecutive Ms Everard, who lived in Brixton, south London, with his police belt at or before 2.30am the following morning. Sarah Everard's parents Jeremy and Susan who bravely faced their daughter's killer and called him a 'monster' and 'the very worst of humanity', sighed with relief, clasped hands and hugged police officers after Couzens shuffled out of the dock to be taken down to the cells. Ms Obukhova said her sister, Couzens' shattered wife of 15 years, was still living in the UK and she didn't know if she was planning to move with the couple's children back to Ukraine. All of us should be free to walk our streets safely.'. This just sounds crazy to me.'. The Schedule clearly has the objective of identifying the types or categories of cases which, as a matter of principle, are in themselves so serious that a whole life order ought to be the starting point. It was cool-headed and clinical. I'm glad I took a stand and alerted the authorities because it was the right thing do. 'He must serve quite a severe punishment for what he's done.'. 'Nothing would surprise me about Wayne Couzens and Wayne Couzens' previous offending. 'Initially only the handles of a green builder's bag were visible above the surface of the water. The 33-year-old marketing executive'vanished into thin air' after leaving a friend's house in Clapham, south London at around 9pm on Wednesday, March 3. The reforms would also allow judges to hand out the maximum sentence to 18 to 20-year-olds in exceptional cases, such as for acts of terrorism leading to mass loss of life. Sarah wanted to get married and have children, now all that has gone. 'Aunty, growing old together and seeing who got the most wrinkles. This has saved the Everard family and Sarah Everard's friends from enduring a trial. Ms Billingham told BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour today that Couzens's actions had struck a 'hammer blow to the heart of policing legitimacy' and that she had the same 'deep, deep anger' that many people felt over the killing. I hope my statement made it clear we do own this. He suffered from lack of sleep and, on occasion, bad tinnitus. 'No piece of information is too insignificant.'. I play it out in my mind. However, his Facebook profile picture was recently updated to a poster of Find Sarah Everard, as he kept on consistently posting about her disappearance, with earnest appeals to everyone to help find her. window.googletag.cmd.push(function() { I am incandescent with rage at the thought of it. He had a beautiful family, a good house what else did he need? Hoping my sister was unconscious and drugged, but we know that was not the case - no drugs found in her body, no trauma to the head. Mr Sturman emphasises the ease with which other accused might have advanced wholly false allegations as part of a defence, some of which might have involved slurs on the character and reputation of the deceased. They refuse to say when or where the alleged indecent exposure took place. He was a nice, friendly bloke and well spoken. Couzens allowed his children to play in 'relatively close proximity to where Miss Everard's body had been dumped in the pond', he added. 'This is the type of equipment that it can be inferred that the defendant was wearing when he kidnapped Sarah Everard. He treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.'. eventAction: 'click_adunit' Officers were yesterday searching an abandoned mini golf park and leisure centre surrounded by acres of woodland near Ashford ahead of the news that human remains had been discovered. 'We're not your enemies!' There can be no doubt as to the increasing sense of desperation on the part of Sarah Everard's family, her boyfriend and her other friends as it became increasingly clear that something untoward had happened to her. Notifications can be turned off anytime from browser settings. 'Wayne himself was a police officer, he told me when we had a chat about three months ago. }); Sarah's family wept and made a final brave statement to tell Couzens, 48, 'the world is a safer place without you in it' as he became the first police officer in British history to receive a whole life sentence. Is climate change killing Australian wine? 'Our thoughts are with Sarah's family and her many friends. The family of Sarah Everard have heard that an initial postmortem examination has not established how she died, and further inquiries into the cause of her death are ongoing. The firearms officer, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift at the American embassy that morning, drove to a secluded rural area near Dover in Kent, where he raped Ms Everard. this is a difficult issue. Someone would have to know the area, to come here. There was also evidence that she had been raped. It is understood that a line of enquiry the police are investigating is whether the suspect may have used this warrant card to engage with the suspect under the pretext of Covid lockdown rules. The sexual predator, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift that morning, went on to rape and strangle the 33-year-old marketing executive before setting fire to her body. Colleagues regarded the married father of two as a 'family man', but in truth he was a porn-obsessed predator who is thought to have blown cash on escorts, and had begged for a pay rise after amassing debts of almost 30,000. Couzens says: 'OK, there was a white Sprinter van. Mr Lowth, 33, whose LinkedIn says he is Marketing Director at MA Exhibitions, later raised the alarm to police when she failed to meet him as she had arranged, her aunt confirmed. She was last. Mr Little said: 'In early February 2021, the defendant was in contact with an escort with username ''escourtbabygirl'' through the Adult Work Escort Service.'. He is a wonderful family man, a wonderful man. He stopped and handcuffed Sarah Everard on the roadside, and as I have already emphasised, he used his position as a police officer to enable this to happen. 'What was unusual and suggests his experience was his disposal of the body. The defendant using his warrant card and handcuffs as well as his other police issue equipment to effect a false arrest.'. He came to visit with the children and we all walked to the river and he helped me at home and in the garden. I didn't notice anything was wrong. He said his family struggled to reconcile how 'the man they loved' who had given 'no indication of violence towards the person' could have 'behaved in this way'. She spent the last hours on this earth with the very worst of humanity. When Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson was asked if Josh Hart had changed much in the eight years they had known each other, he feigned exasperation . 'She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this. In a statement, he said: 'Today our thoughts are with the family of Sarah Everard. The cold, calm way he did it would say this is something that was part of his repertoire. He gave me a few tips on what to do and we got chatting.'. Footage taken from a passing dashcam shows the 33-year-old stood on a pavement on Poynders Road in Clapham as Couzens, who was wearing handcuffs on his police belt, speaks to her. The protector film had been used but its precise purpose is unknown. She added: 'I think this is a watershed moment for policing. By 2008, he was a traffic officer with Kent Police in Folkestone. ', Asked if he knew where she is, he says: 'No'. 'Shards of her kneecap were returned to us to be placed with her body - shards that you knocked when moving her burnt body from the fridge you had used to hide her and conceal the fire. After his final shift, Couzens drove back to his home in Kent in his own car, a Seat. I think of Sarah all the time, but the mornings and evenings are particularly painful. He also is likely to have wanted to avoid his own car being identified as having been in the relevant area when he kidnapped his victim. Zoe Billingham, a senior inspector with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, also said that she could not say 'with certainty' that the murder of a woman by a police officer in Britain would not happen again. Miss Everard's uncle, Nick Everard, described the arrest as a 'shocking development'. 'The immediate impression the passenger formed was that she was witnessing an undercover police officer arresting a woman, whom she assumed 'must have done something wrong',' said Mr Little. The mother-of-two was believed to be among others unable to get to court but wanted to follow the sentencing. He said: 'He was invited to look at the Everards. 'Sarah is gone and I am broken hearted. ', He continues: 'There was a couple of names, I was told a place to take her, that's it, that is all I know.'. She contacted the BBC in an attempt to raise awareness before Ms Everard's disappearance had become an official police investigation. and Josh Lowth's girlfriend was Sarah Everard. A couple driving past the scene saw Couzens in the process of handcuffing Miss Everard, before leading her towards the hire vehicle. There is no doubt but that these three offences are inextricably linked and in considering the correct sentence for murder I have taken into account the kidnapping and the rape, in order to pass a single sentence.
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