Posted on 07/09/2021 3:50:51 AM PDT by RandFan
Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard.
The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, on 3 March.
Ms Everard's boyfriend reported her missing the following day and her body was found a week later in woodland near Ashford, Kent.
Judge Lord Justice Fulford will sentence Couzens at the Old Bailey on 29 September.
He said: "This has been a mammoth investigation which has produced some very significant results in terms of being able to understand what happened."
It can now be reported that Couzens hired a car and bought a roll of self-adhesive film days before the murder.
Couzens, 48, previously pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape and accepted responsibility for Ms Everard's death.
At about 21:00 GMT on 3 March, Ms Everard chatted with her boyfriend on the phone as she walked home.
A camera attached to a passing marked police car captured her walking alone at 21:32.
Just three minutes later, a bus camera appeared to capture the moment she was intercepted by Couzens.
Two figures could be seen standing by the hire car, which was parked on the pavement with its hazard lights flashing.
After abducting Ms Everard, Couzens drove out of London, arriving in the area of Tilmanstone, near Deal, at 01:00.
Investigators tracked the route of the car using CCTV cameras and identified the driver as a serving officer through the car hire firm.
Couzens had used his personal details and bank card to make the booking, picking up the Vauxhall Astra on the afternoon of the abduction and returning it the next morning.
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Life in Britain means about a decade. Almost worthless to exact punishment.
They likely gave him a deal to spare the Met the embarrassment of a trial.
There is still no motive given for this horrible crime?
Probably 5 years with good behaviour.
Will he get his old job back? /s
All we know is that he said he was stressed and didn’t want to carry a firearm.
He has refused to comment.
FWIW: The Astra features a 1 litre 3 cylinder petrol engine.
“Can’t we all just get along?” - Rodney
The dude is lustful for this woman and has to have her to such a point that he murders her??? Jeezus.
In some ways it is an absolute curse to be a beautiful woman.
Poor woman, feel terrible for her family.
Very peculiar.
Rape and a murder to cover it up? You need more of a motive?
Some sick bastards out there...
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