He then walks back to North Military Road before driving off in the Seat at 8.40am.
Forty minutes later, he is in Sandwich, where he parked at the Guildhall car park, and took a short walk along the River Stour, before returning to his car and driving away at about 09.30am.
His reason for going to Sandwich was to dispose of Sarah Everard’s mobile phone, which he did, throwing it in the flood relief channel.
It was subsequently recovered. Without that mobile phone data, police would never have known he was in Sandwich, the Crown said.
After getting rid of the evidence, Couzens returned home. He got home at roughly the same time as he would have done after a night shift.
At 11.32am on Mar 4, the local dentist called Couzens' mobile to re-arrange the dental appointments for his two children scheduled for the following day.
The killer answered the call, was calm and accepting of the inconvenience, and together with the receptionist, re-arranged the appointments for Mar 26.
Couzens didn't leave home again until just before 10.30am.
At 11.05am he went to the BP petrol station at Whitfield Services, Dover in the Seat.
First, he bought an empty green petrol can for £7.99 and then filled the can from one of the petrol pumps with 5.85l.
He would use that petrol to burn Miss Everard's body.
After filling his Seat with diesel, returned to his vehicle carrying a Costa coffee cup.
He went to the drive-through McDonalds in Whitfield a few minutes later (purchasing one large extra value meal and a bottle of orange juice for £6.19.
Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens 'may have used Covid rules to arrest and kidnap victim'
