I hate the fact she had so long to suffer knowing the very likely outcome. Just no words for her pain and suffering and now her parents will also carry that guilt for life as well. Just absolutely horrific for everybody involved.
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A Jekyll/Hyde personaA couple of updated/tweaked bits of info in the Daily Fail article now.
They repeatedly reference him being a “*advertiser censored* addict” (but give no evidence for this - I wonder if it’s not yet been made public?) and also added detail re: the changing of cars-
“The circumstances of what happened after he took Sarah will not be detailed until a hearing in September, but the court was told investigations have found she was transferred to Couzens' own car in Kent, which is where he may have carried out the rape.”
BBM
Wayne Couzens: Devoted father who hid dark desire to rape and kill | Daily Mail Online
That’s what I mean … some women don’t know that sort of behavior isn’t normal until it goes wrong. I’m sure looking back you’d easily be able to point out the warning signs now in hindsight.
I don't blame her, I blame the DM for publishing it. She's a woman who has had her world flipped upside down and is attempting to find reasons where there are none and she's got the DM still knocking at her door months later. The editor has chosen to include these comments knowing full well the the implications of how it casts people with BP.
I wonder if the wife actually wanted the ‘interview’ with Daily Mail. They almost made out she sold her story to them. Clearly not the case. Today was not a good day for an article on her suffering to be published. So yes, I’m not surprised at the DM for that. Shocking and thoughtless reporting as always.
The Daily Mail are the gutter press in the UK so blame her for selling the story to the highest bidder. Maybe she needs money and so she took the offer as she isn’t guilty at the end of the day and wants to share her side. She would of been offered a lot of money to tell her story and if it can help the kids and her in the long run.
Don't you think this would apply to anyone regardless of gender?
In a previously linked article it stated they beloved Sarah was dead by 1am the next morning. So she was not tied up in the woods and being visited. It was a public area, this would have been far too risky.
As for buying the woods...they are for sale all over Kent and people buy them to have family meet ups etc. It's not that unusual around here.
As someone who has bipolar disorder, I appreciate this reply. People with mental illnesses are much more likely to harm themselves than others, and to actually be the victims of violent crimes. Generally, bipolar disorder does not present itself as "up and down" as people tend to think, so imo it wouldn't really fit with the timescale of Sarah's murder. Basically, I think it's rare that people with this illness swing wildly between manic and depressive states so quickly (for example, I once had a manic episode that lasted 6 months!) and have the faculties/capabilities to act in the same way as Wayne Couzens (pretty measured and with a high level of preparedness) when in a manic or depressive state.
Not trying to dismiss anyone with this reply, by the way – when we hear about crimes as awful and incomprehensible as this, I think it's common to try to find a way to "understand" it, which can often lead to conversations around mental illnesses such as bipolar which, unfortunately, are not as understood or sympathised with as other mental disorders.
The DM clearly doorstepped her, she obviously hasn't had any media training or advice to say the things she said, and she won't have got a penny for speaking to them. It's sickening journalism from the DM but sadly unsurprising from them.
I think she has shown dignity and empathy, in sharp contrast to the actions of her husband. She didn't ask for any of this.
May I ask how you interpret his behaviour in jail? His head banging against a wall? Was it psychosis? Im really curious.Really glad to see people speaking out on Bipolar I, II and other mood disorders (or manic depression as the DM quoted it). I’ve worked and still work in this specialist area of psychiatry (including psychosis) for 20 years and never have any of my patients done this- carried out a pre-meditated, carefully crafted abduction leading to murder with a string of historical sexual offences and deviant behaviour in the mix.
Shame on DM to use the wife’s words that he may have had an episode (or manipulate her words about manic depression in some way) It’s thoughtless and uneducated and harmful.
I’ve been campaigning for years to eradicate stigma associated with mental illnesses and that article has not helped that one iota!
He’s a psychopath (dangerous and severe personality disorder) if anyone wants to give a label to the monster. The difference between psychosis and a psychopath is poles apart.
I’m not digging at the wife. I get she is clutching at any explanation she can find, but it’s not without consequence. I hope she is getting support. This must be hard for her to even process.
I would say it was attention. The ‘poor me, I’m ill’ card. Anything to get out of the reality he was in. Maybe his head-banging and poor acting was a ploy to pull the “diminished responsibility’ card too. His actions got him more time. He went to ICU. People with psychosis don’t do this sort of stuff. He’s a manipulator. A psychopath. A narcissist. Thankfully the majority are not buying it and he’s not in a high secure unit. He’s in a prison… where he belongs!May I ask how do you interpret his behaviour in jail? His head banging against a wall? Was it psychosis? Im really curious.
Thank youI would say it was attention. The ‘poor me, I’m ill’ card. Anything to get out of the reality he was in. Maybe his head-banging and poor acting was a ploy to pull the “diminished responsibility’ card too. His actions got him more time. He went to ICU. People with psychosis don’t do this sort of stuff. He’s a manipulator. A psychopath. A narcissist. Thankfully the majority are not buying it and he’s not in a high secure unit. He’s in a prison… where he belongs!
^^bbmThe total lack of attempts to conceal it all, too - buying stuff on Amazon, renting the car in his own name. Utterly brazen - he clearly thought he’d get away with the whole thing.
Makes you wonder what else he’s got away with previously to make him so confident…