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Sarah Everard: BBC documentary recalls police learning killer was officer
BBC ^ | March 4 | BBC

Posted on 03/04/2024 6:06:32 AM PST by RandFan

The detective who led the Sarah Everard murder inquiry has told the BBC about the moment she found out killer Wayne Couzens was a police officer.

Ms Everard, 33, was abducted, raped and murdered by serving Metropolitan Police officer Couzens as she walked home in London in 2021.

Det Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin tells of the "shock" of telling her boss "you're not going to believe this".

She made the comments in a new BBC documentary that will air on Tuesday.

The detective recounted how officers had traced a name linked to a car seen in CCTV footage. The footage showed a man standing with Ms Everard next to a vehicle in Clapham, where she had been walking.

She said: "At that time, Wayne Couzens was a name that meant nothing to any of us. So immediately we start researching the name, also the phone number and the address that had been given when he'd hired the car."

Detectives then found out he was suspected of indecent exposure. Det Ch Insp Goodwin sent a team to Couzens' house in Kent to question him and, while officers were en route, a detective ran into her office, shut the door, and told her "you need to hear this".

A researcher on the phone revealed Couzens was a serving Metropolitan Police officer.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: greatbritain
Seems the detectives were a bit clueless or at least did not expect to find he was a serving officer...
1 posted on 03/04/2024 6:06:32 AM PST by RandFan
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To: All

Important part here:

He should “never have been an officer” an inquiry found:

Last week, an inquiry chaired by Lady Elish Angiolini said Couzens should never have been given his job as a police officer and chances to stop the sexual predator were repeatedly ignored and missed.

Lady Angiolini said “without a significant overhaul, there is nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight.”


2 posted on 03/04/2024 6:08:44 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

This is the same British police force that let a muzzie rape gang operate for decades.

They’re worse than useless. They’re complicit.

L


3 posted on 03/04/2024 6:10:57 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

They can’t even “police” their own ranks


4 posted on 03/04/2024 6:11:38 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Some time ago there was a great,great BBC crime drama series called "Inspector George Gently". He's a former Metropolitan Police officer (meaning London) who got sick of London moved up north...hundreds of miles (and about a century) from London.One of the main plot themes to his episodes was inept and/or crooked cops.

Outstanding series...and maybe more real that was originally thought.

5 posted on 03/04/2024 6:16:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: RandFan

Interesting. Maybe his fellow inmates will deal with him.


6 posted on 03/04/2024 6:17:18 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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I suspect he will be in a very secure/isolated wing?

I dont know what the policy is but usually they do that with ex-police


7 posted on 03/04/2024 6:18:06 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Th3y just caught the golden state killer who was a cop too- (I think that was the title they gave him)- it was a cold case for decades, but he was finally caught by DNA profiles- he terrorized California for a long time.


8 posted on 03/04/2024 6:46:28 AM PST by Bob434
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To: RandFan

They didn’t do that with Chauvin. They put him in general lockup hoping he would get murdered, and he darn near did. And they put him right back in general once he recuperated


9 posted on 03/04/2024 6:48:39 AM PST by Bob434
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I remember what they did there it’s a scandal.

We live in an upside down world. I bet you the actual guilty cop here is in a very secure wing.


10 posted on 03/04/2024 6:53:22 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The video of the policeman interviewing him is on youtube.


11 posted on 03/04/2024 7:26:05 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Gay State Conservative

My wife has recently watched every single episode. She loves that genre from England, Ireland and just about every other cop show presented on BritBox, Acorn and PBS. There’s cop dramas from all over the place. She watched one recently from Ireland that the brogue was thick that even with close captioning, I couldn’t understand a single word they said.


12 posted on 03/04/2024 7:47:58 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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