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

[LucyRocket]

The court has heard how Wayne Couzens bought handcuffs on February 10 from Amazon, and they were in the car at the time of her kidnap.

Live updates as Wayne Couzens sentenced at Old Bailey for Sarah Everard's murder

 

[Sarahlou]

He is the absolute worst. It's making me angry reading these updates. Poor Sarah, she must have been terrified.
He shouldn't see daylight ever again.
I'm convinced he must have other victims.

 

[Ched]

The defendant worked the following shifts for the PaDP in the week before the kidnap of Sarah Everard:

• Friday Feb 26: 07:00-19:00 (day shift)
• Saturday Feb 27: 07:00-19:00 (day shift)
• Sunday Feb 28: 19:00-07:00 (night shift, a change from a scheduled day shift)
• Monday Mar 1: 19:00-07:00 (night shift)
• Tuesday Mar 2: 19:00-07:00 (night shift)

On Feb 28, a fellow officer saw the defendant coming in to do his night shift. The defendant said he had driven in because there were no high-speed trains. And it was on this date that he booked a hire car online from Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Dover, for the period 5pm on Mar 3 to 09:30am on Mar 4 at the cost of £65.40 using his Mastercard.

Mr Little told the court: "He was not due to work at that time and other than planning for what was to take place on Mar 3 there is no credible alternative explanation for his need to hire a car.

"He was regularly using his Seat to travel to and from London. Just two minutes after having booked the hire car the defendant ordered a 600mm x 100m roll of self-adhesive carpet protector film from Amazon, which was shipped to his home address on Mar 1. That was found when the police searched the property following his arrest.
"Some of it had been used and given the temporal proximity of the order to the hiring of the car the proper inference to draw is that it was intended to be used and was used during the course of the kidnap."
Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Seattle1]

WC was heavily in debt, lied to his family about his working hours, used fake dating profiles and escort services. Will his defense attribute his debt to sex addiction? Where are they going with this besides that he's a horrible human?

 

[Skigh]

WC was heavily in debt, lied to his family about his working hours, used fake dating profiles and escort services. Will his defense attribute his debt to sex addiction? Where are they going with this besides that he's a horrible human?

I am wondering if he also was involved in gambling.

 

[Ched]

The last shift worked by the defendant was the 7pm to 7am night shift on Tuesday, Mar 2, through to Mar 3.

He arrived at the Lillie Road base and was then posted at the American Embassy.

That evening the defendant discussed the possibility of leaving the Metropolitan Police because of the pay dispute and depending on the outcome he might go off sick with stress.

This was meant to be the start of his period of five rest days, from Wednesday Mar 3 at 7am to Mar 8 at 7am, when he was due to return to Lillie Road for a training day
Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Sherlockhames]

The court has heard how Wayne Couzens bought handcuffs on February 10 from Amazon, and they were in the car at the time of her kidnap.

Live updates as Wayne Couzens sentenced at Old Bailey for Sarah Everard's murder

I am beginning to understand more now why there was so much horror expressed by reporters in court that they could not mention publicly. Until his guilty plea all this had to be kept under wraps to ensure the crown’s case was watertight to ensure a whole life tariff

I am now feeling sorry for the investigators into this case once the pieces of evidence of pre-meditation were discovered. How horrific. And, but for cctv he may not have actually been caught. Thank god for all ring doorbells/public transport cameras/dashcams etc.

The more this cctv evidence is laid out the more it hopefully sinks into other potential perpetrators with the same mindset that they WILL get caught so not to try (and i will ensure I continue to only walk in areas I know are covered by CCTV).

No wonder Cressida Dick looked so ashen when announcing his arrest - doesn’t even have to be the fact he was a police officer (although that is clearly horrific) but just the bare facts are awful.

 

[Ched]

The defendant told his family that he was working on the night of 3PrdP March 2021.

He was not.

At 9.38pm on Mar 3 - and therefore at exactly the same time as the defendant drove from the pavement on to South Circular with Sarah Everard detained in the back of the hire car - the defendant’s wife sent a message to the defendant’s mother stating: "Wayne had a call for overtime shift tonight. I wondering if you could pick children from school tomorrow, would you?".

When the Police attended the defendant’s home address, a calendar was recovered from the kitchen fridge. It marked Couzens' work pattern - and on Mar 3, he had noted that he was working overtime.

Mr Little told the Old Bailey: "The reality is that the defendant clearly had no intention of going to work on the night of Mar 3.

"The defendant’s explanation as given to the psychiatrist that he took his excess Police kit with him intending to leave it in his locker is not accepted by the Prosecution.
It defies belief – given that he did not return it when he drove very close to Lillie Road and also what occurred that evening."
Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Sherlockhames]

(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.)

 

[Ched]

Couzens switches cars before kidnap
The defendant left home and travelled to Dover in the Seat. He did not travel to London in his own vehicle, but stopped in Dover to pick up the hire car he had booked on Feb 28.

Shortly after 4.15pm the defendant drove his Seat in a southerly direction on North Military Road, Dover.
Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Kaykedi]

Sounds just like the LISK...

Who is the Long Island Serial Killer I wonder?

 

[Seattle1]

[URL='https://twitter.com/SkyNews']Sky News@SkyNews[/URL]

Wayne Couzens handcuffed and arrested Sarah Everard before he raped and strangled her, a court has been told. Read more here: https://trib.al/gMUGwmy

3:02 AM · Sep 29, 2021·

Video at link - witness saw SE being handcuffed

 

[Seattle1]

[URL='https://twitter.com/kirkkorner']Tristan Kirk@kirkkorner[/URL]
The Met Police officer who kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard used Covid-19 laws to carry out a bogus arrest of the 33yo, the Old Bailey has heard. He was carrying an array of police equipment and posing as an undercover cop when he handcuffed and captured her.

2:53 AM · Sep 29, 2021·

 

[Ched]

Sarah Everard had worked from home during the day on Mar 3. She planned to have dinner with a friend who lived in the Clapham Junction area.

She walked all the way there and would have walked all the way back had she not been kidnapped, the court heard.

She went to Sainsbury’s on Brixton Hill to buy a bottle of red wine, before heading towards Clapham Junction via Cavendish Road, SW4. She was wearing a pale beanie hat, a short turquoise raincoat, leggings or jogging bottoms with a distinctive black and white chevron pattern, green running trainers with orange/fluorescent laces, with a red-coloured zipped Montane jumper/fleece under her jacket and a pale top under that.

Whilst in the shop, she wore a pale cloth face mask.

She walked along the South Circular and she arrived at her friend’s flat at about 6:30pm with the bottle of red wine she had purchased.

They ate, drank the bottle of wine and talked about various subjects.

Mr Little told the Old Bailey: "The fact she had been to a friend’s house for dinner at the height of the early 2021 lockdown made her more vulnerable to and/or more likely to submit to an accusation that she had acted in breach of the regulations in some way." Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Alyce]

The court hears that fragments of Ms Everard's clothing were found in the area where her body was burnt in woodland in Kent.

At 8pm on the evening he abducted Ms Everard, Wayne Couzens went to Tesco in Kensington and bought a pack of 14 hair bands, the court hears.

"This is a significant purchase, and part of the defendant's plans," Mr Little says




Wayne Couzens sentencing live: Sarah Everard's killer had dating profiles and carried handcuffs off-duty, court hears

 

[LucyRocket]

Prosecutor Tom Little says Sarah Everard's mobile phone was thrown into a river in Sandwich, Kent, by Wayne Couzens hours after he murdered her.

A broken fragment of an EE sim card from the phone was found in Couzens's Seat car, the court heard.

"He must have removed it from the telephone and tried to destroy it, having taken her phone from her," Mr Little says.

Ms Everard was described by her boyfriend as "extremely intelligent, savvy and streetwise" and he could not envisage her getting into a stranger's car unless by force or manipulation, the court heard.

Wayne Couzens sentencing live: Sarah Everard's killer had dating profiles and carried handcuffs off-duty, court hears

 

[Smkd]

Sky News@SkyNews

Wayne Couzens handcuffed and arrested Sarah Everard before he raped and strangled her, a court has been told. Read more here: https://trib.al/gMUGwmy

3:02 AM · Sep 29, 2021·

Video at link - witness saw SE being handcuffed

Ugh I feel sick

 

[Ched]

Couzens circling London 'hunting for a lone female'
Meanwhile, Couzens was doing laps of London in his hire car "hunting for a lone young female to kidnap and rape", Mr Little said.
Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[Ched]

Sarah Everard's last phonecall
Meanwhile Sarah Everard left her friend’s flat at about 9.10pm. She was in good spirits when she left.

She walked along the A205. As she walked home at 9:13pm Sarah Everard called her boyfriend, Josh Lowth.

The call lasted 14 minutes and 52 seconds, ending at 9:28pm. He formed the impression that she was walking briskly, as was her habit.

Mr Little QC said: "They made plans for the rest of the week. She sounded in good spirits but not intoxicated, and the conversation ended normally, as if Sarah was just going to continue walking home through South London, something she did routinely.

"That was the last family, friends and colleagues heard from Sarah Everard. She did not text her friend to say she had got home on Mar 3. She did not attend a scheduled client meeting on the morning of Mar 4.

"Her boyfriend’s messages about their plans for the rest of the week had not been read and went unanswered, and there was no sign of her using her telephone or social media such as Instagram, despite her normally doing so. From 11:38pm all attempts to call her mobile telephone went to 'call forward'."
By early evening, after trying other ways of getting hold of Sarah Everard to no avail, Josh Lowth went round to her flat but got no answer.

He started to make enquiries with the hospitals and emergency services, and reported Sarah as missing to the police. He also made enquiries with other friends and family on Mar 4, but nobody had heard from her all day.

Police confirmed in the early hours of Mar 5 that Sarah Everard was not at her home address and that her flat had the appearance of her not having returned there after leaving her friend’s flat.

It was only after an extensive and expeditious police investigation that what happened to Sarah Everard on the South Circular became apparent. Sarah Everard: Former Met officer Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for murder

 

[LucyRocket]

Sarah Everard left her friends flat at 9.10pm. She called her boyfriend at 9.13pm and he formed the impression that was was walking quickly.

The call lasted 14 minutes and they made plans for the rest of the week.

The court heard: "She sounded in good spirits but not intoxicated and the conversation ended normally as if Sarah was just going to continues walking home

"That was the last family, friends and colleagues heard from her.

"She had not text family she had gotten home.

"Her boyfriends messages about their plans for the rest of the week had not been read and went unanswered."

Live updates as Wayne Couzens sentenced at Old Bailey for Sarah Everard's murder