Posted on 09/30/2021 3:10:09 AM PDT by RandFan
An officer who strangled Sarah Everard with his police belt after kidnapping her under the guise of a fake arrest for breaking lockdown rules is facing a whole life sentence.
Wayne Couzens, 48, used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to snatch Ms Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3.
The firearms officer, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift at the American embassy that morning, drove to a secluded rural area near Dover in Kent, where he parked up and raped Ms Everard.
The marketing executive, who lived in Brixton, south London, had been strangled with Couzens’ police belt by 2.30am the following morning.
Married Couzens burned her body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood, near Ashford, before dumping the remains in a nearby pond.
He was arrested at his home in Deal, Kent, after police connected him to a hire car he used to abduct Ms Everard, whose remains were found by police dogs on March 10.
Couzens was sacked from the force after he pleaded guilty in July to her kidnap, rape and murder.
On Wednesday, Ms Everard’s parents and sister condemned her killer as a “monster” as he sat quaking in the dock of the Old Bailey with his head bowed for the start of his sentencing.
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In Britain, that’s probably about 5 years.
She’s probably also not his first victim.
Brits think the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment but a lifetime of housing, feeding, clothing, medical care, etc. for a man who raped, murdered and burned an innocent woman is A-OK.
Whole life order. For the most serious cases of murder, an offender may be sentenced to a life sentence with a ‘whole life order.’ This means that their crime was so serious that they will never be released from prison.
Ludicrous, even kinda funny: WHOLE LIFE vs Life sentence. And here I thought the Brits invented a coherent language.
(Oh, and, Scotland Yard Chief Dame Cressida Dick)
How he thought he could pull off the abduction, rape, murder, and mutilation of that woman when every action anyone does in England is filmed shows just how f*cked in the head he is.
This worm is the worst of the worst. He does not deserve jail, unless first being maimed to cut out his tongue and then castrated.
I am sure he will make new friends in prison...
The terminology is sometimes: “Serving at Her Majesty’s Pleasure”...
Goes all the way back to medieval times, when only the Sovereign could decide if and when you might be pardoned (which, of course pretty much NEVER happened)...
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