GUILTY UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London, Clapham Common area, 3 Mar 2021 *Awaiting Sentencing*, #15

[brownbread]

Oh gosh this is horrific. The deception used to get into the car is what I assumed happened, it seemed to be the only logical explanation, so this is not in itself surprising. What is truly distressing is the clear premeditation.

 

[LucyRocket]

While there's a break I'll go through reports for any snippets we've missed



Couzens was involved in a dispute with the Metropolitan Police over his pay scale, prosecutor Tom Little says.

He talked freely about this to colleagues who had the impression that he was a "family man", the court hears.

Ms Everard's friends and family watch quietly from the public gallery as clips of her inside Sainsbury's are shown.

Wayne Couzens is sitting in the dock hanging his head.

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[RubyLee87]

The details coming out are horrifying. Poor Sarah. I can’t imagine the terror she must have felt when she realised what was happening. The level of the perpetrator’s prior planning is chilling. It could have happened to any young women unfortunate enough to cross his path that night.

 

[Lubilu]

Oh gosh this is horrific. The deception used to get into the car is what I assumed happened, it seemed to be the only logical explanation, so this is not in itself surprising. What is truly distressing is the clear premeditation.

It makes me feel even more angry about how very sad he is clearly feeling for himself. This wasn't a snap, regrettable decision (not that I can consider that an excuse anyway). It's cliche to say, but he's just sorry that he got caught.

 

[Sarahlou]

It's a shame the *advertiser censored* can't swing for this, the man is pure evil and that poor woman was just walking home innocently FFS.
He's a disgrace, I hope the murdering, rapist animal gets a full life sentence, RIP with the angels beautiful Sarah .......justice is coming.

I'm against the death penalty but honestly I have those thoughts too when it comes to cases like this. He doesn't deserve to be breathing.

 

[LucyRocket]

So surprised was the witness by what she had seen, as she considered it to be relatively unusual and not something she had ever witnessed before, she remarked to her husband “I’ve just seen a woman being handcuffed”.

She then saw the man and the woman walking in the direction of travel of the vehicle (i.e. eastwards), with the handcuffed woman in front of the man, and close together.

All her husband - who was driving - was able to see or recall of the scene was a stationary white-coloured vehicle with lights flashing.

Mr Little, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey: "They were in fact witnessing the kidnapping of Sarah Everard. She was detained by fraud. The defendant using his warrant card and handcuffs as well as his other Police issue equipment to effect a false arrest. Having handcuffed her to the rear she would not have been able to undo the seatbelt that the defendant must have placed over her.

Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens 'may have used Covid rules to arrest and kidnap victim'

 

[Lubilu]

I keep trying to think of appropriate words, but it feels like I'd be doing a disservice to pond scum in making a comparison.

 

[Ched]

Harrowing dashcam footage shows Miss Everard in back of car
Dashcam footage from a private vehicle shows the Vauxhall Crossland in the same position.

A nearside rear-facing camera shows a figure in the rear passenger seat (behind the driver).

This was plainly Sarah Everard. A figure was also sitting in the driver’s seat. This was the defendant.

By 9.38pm, the Vauxhall Crossland was moving east along Poynders Road, past the junction with Clarence Avenue, from where it continued eastwards. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/29/sarah-everard-trial-wayne-couzens-sentencing-live-news/

Couzens drove through South London, heading in an easterly direction, and onto the M20 to Folkestone, then east / north east to Dover, arriving shortly before 11:30pm.

There is nothing to indicate from the telephone data that he stopped or deviated from the main roads.

The hire car was driven north on North Military Road in Dover and parked up shortly after, close to where his Seat must have been left earlier in the evening, the Old Bailey was told.

 

[SveJeMoguce]

Our worst fears have been confirmed today. As a young woman close in age to Sarah (and Sabina) it's hard to feel safe anywhere anymore.

 

[LucyRocket]

Harrowing dashcam footage shows Miss Everard in back of car
Dashcam footage from a private vehicle shows the Vauxhall Crossland in the same position.

A nearside rear-facing camera shows a figure in the rear passenger seat (behind the driver).

This was plainly Sarah Everard. A figure was also sitting in the driver’s seat. This was the defendant.

By 9.38pm, the Vauxhall Crossland was moving east along Poynders Road, past the junction with Clarence Avenue, from where it continued eastwards.


Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens 'may have used Covid rules to arrest and kidnap victim'

 

[Ched]

Couzens transfers Sarah Everard from hire car to his Seat
About six and a half minutes later, at 11:38pm, CCTV footage from a St John’s Ambulance premises shows a brief flash of lights such as when a vehicle’s central locking is activated.

Around five minutes later, at 11.43pm the Seat pulled away from where it had been parked on North Military Road and it was driven out of Dover on the A256.

Couzens must therefore have moved Sarah Everard between the vehicles.

Mr Little, prosecuting, said: "In order to have done so and without her escaping or trying to escape or make a noise it can be inferred that he, at least, must have threatened her.

"The hired Vauxhall Crossland had served its purpose and was not used by the defendant, until much later the following morning."

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

So he handcuffed her and put her in back of car. I wonder at what point she realised it was fake. The poor, poor woman. Just the stuff of nightmares.

Was it ever determined if that car seen at the lights on the Tfl traffic cam which appeared to have a driver and figure in the back, was his car?

 

[LucyRocket]

About six and a half minutes later, at 11:38pm, CCTV footage from a St John’s Ambulance premises shows a brief flash of lights such as when a vehicle’s central locking is activated.

Around five minutes later, at 11.43pm the Seat pulled away from where it had been parked on North Military Road and it was driven out of Dover on the A256.

Couzens must therefore have moved Sarah Everard between the vehicles.

Mr Little, prosecuting, said: "In order to have done so and without her escaping or trying to escape or make a noise it can be inferred that he, at least, must have threatened her.

"The hired Vauxhall Crossland had served its purpose and was not used by the defendant, until much later the following morning."

Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens 'may have used Covid rules to arrest and kidnap victim'

 

[Tullyjune]

What’s the best source for the live updates please?

The hearing is 2 days long isn’t it? That’s a lot more detail to come. It’s just so harrowing.

The aggravating factors in this are huge, I assume they will play a key part in sentencing.

 

[LucyRocket]

I thought that made sense, he went straight to Dover and switched cars

 

[tedtink]

So he handcuffed her and put her in back of car. I wonder at what point she realised it was fake. The poor, poor woman. Just the stuff of nightmares.

Was it ever determined if that car seen at the lights on the Tfl traffic cam which appeared to have a driver and figure in the back, was his car?

I think the rear window appeared to be open in that car and the person in the back seat would have been behind the passenger seat? I don't think SE could have opened the window.

 

[Ched]

Miss Everard driven to rural area and raped
Between 11:53pm and 00:57am the killer’s mobile phone used cell sites located in the CT15 postcode area - around and generally orientated towards the villages of Shepherdswell and Eythorne, west of Deal.

There is also an indication that the phone was to the north/northeast of this area, prior to returning south towards Dover.

Cell site analysis also picked up signals from Couzens' phone which serves a rural area to the northwest of Dover. This is an area that the defendant knew well, the Crown told the Old Bailey.

The crown say that this is the area where Wayne Couzens parked up and raped Sarah Everard in the his Seat.

At 12.57am, the Seat activated an ANPR camera on the southbound A256 in Whitfield, just north of Dover.

The CPS say this device data correlates with the known movements of the Seat - suggesting the mobile phone was travelling with that vehicle.

Mr Little QC also said this is consistent with the defendant returning with Sarah Everard to Dover having raped her.
Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens 'may have used Covid rules to arrest and kidnap victim'

 

[mrjitty]

(I know this is all about Sarah, but I am now thinking about his poor wife and poor kids.
I kind of hope for her sake she already has a lucrative tell-all interview with the tabloids lined up that at least gives her a massive pay out so she can then hopefully disappear and build a new life for herself and her family.)

I've said from the start his wife and kids were his first victims over an extended period of deception and likely abusive behaviour. Frequently the domestic partner doesn't survive these guys.

I have an acquaintance who was revealed to be a similarly abusive guy with a secret dating life and identities. It only came out when he tried to pull the classic murder/suicide routine on his family.

 

[LucyRocket]

What’s the best source for the live updates please?

The hearing is 2 days long isn’t it? That’s a lot more detail to come. It’s just so harrowing.

The aggravating factors in this are huge, I assume they will play a key part in sentencing.

The sources are linked in our posts.

My London are pretty dire. Way behind, and very little detail. She could do with a red bull.

The Telegraph

Sky

 

[tedtink]

What’s the best source for the live updates please?

The hearing is 2 days long isn’t it? That’s a lot more detail to come. It’s just so harrowing.

The aggravating factors in this are huge, I assume they will play a key part in sentencing.

The Telegraph is good but we can't copy and paste the updates here due to the paywall. It's against TOS.
But we can summarise.