UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London, Clapham Common, 3 March 2021 MEDIA THREAD *NO DISCUSSION*

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10 March 2021
Andy Hughes
@SkyAndyHughes

NEW: The focus of the search for missing Sarah Everard is at a disused paintball centre near Ashford, Kent. Dozens of officers have arrived this morning. A serving Metropolitan Police officer is being questioned at a police station in London over the disappearance.
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UPDATE: Police investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard are searching an area of land near Ashford in Kent, Sky News understands. The focus of the search is around 30 miles away from where a serving Metropolitan Police officer was arrested in connection with the case.

 

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https://twitter.com/SkyAndyHughes/status/1369593686187794434
NEW: Officers sweeping the large area of farmland in the search for missing Sarah Everard.

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Human remains found as PC arrested held on suspicion of murder
10 March 2021
Sarah Everard murder investigation: Arrested officer named as WC as police search house in Deal and woodland near Ashford
-Teams are working at the property in Deal and scouring a sprawling abandoned leisure complex 30 miles away in Ashford.
-A tent has been erected outside the father-of-two's terrace home in Freemen's Way and it is thought officers are digging up his garden after hoarding was installed this afternoon.
-It is thought one area of woodland being searched is near Betteshanger Park.
-A larger search is taking place near Ashford, some 30 miles away from where the officer was arrested.

 

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Previous work history

How Wayne Couzens went from mechanic to Met cop to Sarah Everard suspect

Serving Kent cop Wayne Couzens charged with kidnap and murder of Brixton 33-year-old Sarah Everard

End of road as garage doors close for last time

Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer, 48, arrested over disappearance | Daily Mail Online

To 2011 Family business BCB garage
2011 Joined Civil Nuclear Constabulary at Dungeness
10 Sept 2018 Joined Met police Bromley local response team
1 Feb 2020 Started current Met role

Thought to have been Special Constable in Folkestone pre 2011 (traffic) and Territorial Army volunteer

 

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IOPC referrals in connection with Sarah Everard investigation
11 March
IOPC referrals in connection with Sarah Everard investigation
5 matters referred to IOPC

Met cop 'may have used warrant card to entice Sarah Everard into car'
11 March
POLICE were last night investigating whether a top gun cop used his warrant card to entice Sarah Everard into a car out of the view of cameras...

Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said human remains had been found in woods — but did not confirm that they belonged to marketing executive Sarah, 33...

Dame Cressida said: “We are not able to confirm any identity. That may take some considerable time”...

Cops moved in on (WC) after a car linked to him was allegedly spotted on a motorist’s dashcam near to where Sarah was last seen on the night of Wednesday March 3...

WC is believed to have worked a shift in South London that day...

Police do not believe (WC) had ever met Sarah Everard previously...

(WC) is normally based at the Palace of Westminster. Detectives probing Sarah’s suspected murder searched his locker yesterday.

 

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Met cop 'may have used warrant card to entice Sarah Everard into car'
11 March 2021
The movements of the car, believed to have been hired, were said to have been tracked by ANPR cameras from the scene...

It is understood (WC) worked a 2pm to 8pm relief shift at the US Embassy in Nine Elms, South West London. It is around three miles from where Sarah, who was wearing a green rain jacket and navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, was last seen on a doorbell camera at 9.30pm...

Moments later (WC) is suspected of bundling Sarah into his car out of view of cameras...

Cops had cordoned off flats on Poynders Road at 4pm on Tuesday and searched the immediate vicinity.

Sarah Everard: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Wayne Couzens: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

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The search for Sarah Everard: What we know about her last movements
Includes timeline to 10 March


... A member of the public finds two number plates stashed close by in Rodenhurst Road and they are placed in evidence bags...


Everything we know about Wayne Couzens, the murder suspect and elite protection officer who was relied upon to keep VIPs safe

How Wayne Couzens went from mechanic to Met cop to Sarah Everard suspect
11 March 2021
BCB Dover at Western Heights closed in 2015 after 48 years. Couzens started as an apprentice in 1990 working as a light-vehicle body repair technician...

He worked there until 2011 before following in the footsteps of his brother David and becoming a cop...

He was based at Dungeness and received firearms training with the nuclear force...

transferred to the Met in September 2018 and worked as an armed diplomatic protection officer based in Westminster and guarding embassies and high-profile potential targets...

(WC’s neighbour) also revealed that an ambulance had been spotted outside the home a few nights before the arrest took place.

 

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Scotland Yard officer arrested on suspicion of murder in Sarah Everard case
11 March 2021
It is understood the breakthrough in the investigation followed information that was obtained from a CCTV camera fixed to a London bus that had been travelling along the route where Ms Everard disappeared...
Met Police said the armed officer had also been arrested on suspicion of a separate allegation of indecent exposure. These allegations are now also being looked at by the IOPC

Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer, 48, arrested over disappearance | | Express Digest

David Ladd, 48, who lives on the street, said he saw his neighbour being arrested last night.

He said: ‘I came back last night from a motorbike ride about 10pm and there were a load of plain clothes police officers in the street.

‘They had arrested Wayne. I saw him in handcuffs being put in the back of an unmarked silver car. Uniformed officers turned up and have been outside Wayne’s house since then.

‘I’d seen that he had a motorbike and I had some problems with the exhaust on my bike and so went to see him to see if he could help. He gave me a few tips on what to do and we got chatting.’

A woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender at the same location and was also detained at a London police station.

Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer, 48, arrested over disappearance | | Express Digest

 

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Police search Kent locations as hunt for Sarah continues
11 Mar 2021
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan told the PA news agency that he was in regular contact with the Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick about the investigation.

Khan added: “It is now in the public domain that a serving Met Police officer has been arrested. One of the things that this confirms that actually our police service, when it comes to keeping the public safe, when it comes to investigating crime, they work in a situation that is without fear or favour. They will follow the investigation to wherever it takes.”


Serving officer, 48, arrested over Sarah Everard
11 March 2021
As officers painstakingly combed 500-acre Hoad's Wood, locals said it was often used as a dumping ground.

Two miles west of Ashford in Kent, the desolate spot is flanked by a railway line and an abandoned golf and paintballing centre.

Rob, a resident whose family owns part of the wood, said: 'My family used to bury sheep in there in the old days. No one ever goes through it because it's private.

'It's all bramble and trees.'

He said flytippers often dumped rubbish there, including old cars.


Andy Hughes@SkyAndyHughes
UPDATE: Police investigating the disappearance of Sarah Everard are searching an area of land near Ashford in Kent, Sky News understands. The focus of the search is around 30 miles away from where a serving Metropolitan Police officer was arrested in connection with the case.




Sarah Everard search: Police presence at former family garage of Wayne Couzens
‘Police have been combing land in Ashford and a property in Deal - and now they have started a search in Dover’

 

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Statement made by Metropolitan Police Commissioner when remains found
Everything Cressida Dick said on Sarah Everard investigation

 

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How Wayne Couzens went from mechanic to Met cop to Sarah Everard suspect

• Updated: 11 Mar 2021, 1:08

Dad-of-two Couzens commuted into London from his coastal home to guard some of Britain’s most high-profile buildings and people.

It was his dream come true after previously having worked at his family’s garage repair business.

He joined the Civil Nuclear Constabulary before moving on to serve in the Metropolitan Police.

Shaven-headed Couzens was highly regarded among colleagues for his calm approach — a key attribute for a gun cop.

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“Wayne and his wife were brought out by police between 9pm and 10pm.

“He was in handcuffs and was put in the back of a van while his wife was put in a car.

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The couple, who married in 2006, were described as “chatty”.

Their children are featured on their social media and attended a local school.

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Couzens had previously worked for more than 20 years at a garage run by his dad Ray in Dover.

BCB Dover at Western Heights closed in 2015 after 48 years. Couzens started as an apprentice in 1990 working as a light-vehicle body repair technician.

He worked there until 2011 before following in the footsteps of his brother David and becoming a cop.

He was based at Dungeness and received firearms training with the nuclear force.

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Couzens transferred to the Met in September 2018 and worked as an armed diplomatic protection officer based in Westminster and guarding embassies and high-profile potential targets.

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Couzens’ wife grew up in Ukraine and obtained a first-class degree in biochemistry at the University of Donetsk.

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After working as a lab technician in Ukraine, she moved to Britain. She is employed as a lab manager for an engineering company.

Gardener John Chidwick, 67, who lives in a block of flats opposite, said Couzens is well spoken and “always appeared to be happy”.

 

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The Facebook event, titled ‘Reclaim These Streets’, was set up after Ms Everard went missing while walking home last week.

The organisers have demanded that the capital’s streets be a safe place for women.

The vigil will begin at 6pm on Saturday at the bandstand in Clapham Common. Attendees are asked to wear a mask and practice social distancing.

In a description for the event, the organisers said "We believe that streets should be safe for women, regardless of what you wear, where you live or what time of day or night it is.

“We shouldn’t have to wear bright colours when we walk home and clutch our keys in our fists to feel safe.
‘Reclaim These Streets’ vigil planned for Sarah Everard



Cancelled: Reclaim These Streets Vigil organisers cancel event



Candle trail proposed from Kent to London for Sarah Everard

 

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Body found in hunt for Sarah Everard: Police find 'human remains' in Kent wood after arresting serving Met officer, 48, 'who spent day she vanished guarding London's US Embassy' on suspicion her murder

It is understood detectives began to suspect father-of-two Couzens after a vehicle linked to him, reportedly a hire car, was allegedly seen on another motorist's dashcam near to where Miss Everard vanished on March 3.

Detectives carried out a search of Couzens' locker at the police base in the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, police began searching his £200,000 Kent home and garden while a £20,000 black Seat Exeo was taken away on a lowloader. Officers were also seen photographing a motorbike in the property's garage.

Police who arrested Couzens are understood to have taken a memory card as part of their investigation.


Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer, 48, arrested over disappearance | Daily Mail Online

 

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Photos of forensic search Poynders Court, London
Search for missing Sarah Everard, 33, enters sixth day as new CCTV footage shows no sign of her | Daily Mail Online

 

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Sarah Everard: 'Murder suspect' Met officer found via CCTV from bus camera | Daily Mail Online
11 March 2021
The policeman arrested on suspicion of killing Sarah Everard was watched for days by armed undercover detectives before they swooped to arrest him.

Wayne Couzens, 48, remains in custody today held on suspicion of the kidnap and murder of Miss Everard and indecent exposure to a second unnamed victim.

Sources have suggested that plain clothes detectives may have been secretly monitoring the suspect's movements for days before he was arrested at home in Deal, Kent, just before midnight on Tuesday.

One said: 'From the moment the suspect was identified he would have been under constant physical and electronic surveillance as the risk of allowing him to commit further offences would have been too great', the insider said.

'There is also the possibility that police - initially at least - may still have believed that he could have led them to the location of Sarah Everard if she were still alive or otherwise.'


Officer continues to be quizzed after remains found in search for Sarah Everard | ITV News
The IOPC is currently assessing whether any further action should be taken in relation to the actions of police after Ms Everard was reported missing.

 

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Cop arrested in Sarah Everard case ‘spent day she vanished guarding US Embassy’ – Metro
It is understood PC Couzens worked a 2pm to 8pm relief shift last Wednesday at the US Embassy in Nine Elms, south-west London.

(Map photo at UK - UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London - Clapham Common area, 3 March 2021 *Arrests* #6)

 

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Sarah Everard 'had no link & never met' Met cop arrested over kidnap & murder
11 March 2021

Sources told The Times that while detectives were searching social media messages, they had so far not found a link between Couzens and Everard.

The source said there was "so far there is no evidence" of a link but added: "You can’t be 100 per cent certain at this stage but so far it is a leading line of inquiry that Sarah didn’t know whoever attacked her.”

 

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KentOnline (@Kent_Online) tweeted at 11:31 am on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
Latest on the investigation into the murder of #SarahEverard: Armed police officer Wayne Couzens remains in custody as searches near Great Chart and Deal continue. A team of divers has turned up and police remain at the derelict family garage of Couzens...

LIVE: Search continues after remains found with PC still in custody https://t.co/O6rIdo8gcE
(https://twitter.com/Kent_Online/status/1369974355304841222?s=03)



Sarah Everard : Last known movements of woman who went missing in south London
11 March 2021

Harry Acton (@HarryRActon) tweeted at 11:58 am on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
More teams turning up in Deal today. https://t.co/Gy9313h2WJ
(https://twitter.com/HarryRActon/status/1369981122294251521?s=03)
https://mobile.twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1369986383226544134

Updates on Search at Great Chart, Ashford, Kent

Kentish Express (@KentishExpress) tweeted at 10:22 am on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
This is the scene at the former Great Chart Golf and Leisure complex as Met officers continue to work on the site near #Ashford
Bears Lane was open to traffic yesterday, but is closed today #SarahEverard
https://t.co/OTjdMnAXKk
(https://twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1369956993927102465?s=03)

Kentish Express (@KentishExpress) tweeted at 12:19 pm on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
Temporary operation rooms have just entered the site. Police are going to be here for a long time yet #SarahEverard
https://t.co/qDNclmTGQr
(https://twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1369986383226544134?s=03)

Kentish Express (@KentishExpress) tweeted at 12:26 pm on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
And here's the diving team truck. It's been parked in Bears Lane since about 10am #SarahEverard
https://t.co/OED6wTIihl
(https://twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1369988096440287235?s=03)

Kentish Express (@KentishExpress) tweeted at 12:59 pm on Thu, Mar 11, 2021:
The first flowers are laid at the leisure complex entrance as heavy rain falls #SarahEverard https://t.co/rQJqZtxH5V
(https://twitter.com/KentishExpress/status/1369996277526781953?s=03)

 

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11 March 2021

'I talked to my daughter just Tuesday and she didn't tell me anything.'

'She said Wayne was at work and everything was fine.'

'But it has been claimed today that Couzens, an armed diplomatic protection officer, worked a 2pm to 8pm shift guarding the US embassy close to Battersea Power station - less than three miles from where Miss Everard was last seen. '

'He couldn't do anything like this': Mother-in-law of Sarah Everard murder suspect speaks out | Daily Mail Online

 

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Sarah Everard: 'Murder suspect' Met officer found via CCTV from bus camera | Daily Mail Online
11 March 2021
It is claimed Couzens was working at the American Embassy in Battersea on the day Miss Everard was taken.

Police arrested one of their own officers over the murder of Sarah Everard after a breakthrough from CCTV on a passing London bus ... it emerged today.

It was reported that neighbours noticed a Land Rover parked close to policeman Wayne Couzens' house in the historic town of Deal, and thought it was being watched by two men inside at around 5pm on Tuesday evening.

But it has been claimed today that Couzens, an armed diplomatic protection officer, worked a 2pm to 8pm shift guarding the US embassy close to Battersea Power station - less than three miles from where Miss Everard was last seen at 9.30pm.

The armed officer, who is part of the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) armed unit would have been picked up outside the embassy by a minibus and most likely taken to Charing Cross police station.

Once there, like all armed officers, he should have checked his firearm back into the armoury and headed to his locker to get changed.

He should not have gone home in full uniform. Instead, all officers are required to change into their civilian clothes.

MailOnline believes that the woods where the remains were found were known to him because Couzens' Ukrainian wife and their two children had visited for walks.


Map of woods being searched at UK - UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London - Clapham Common area, 3 March 2021 *Arrests* #7