The former British police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard in March is handed a whole life order on Thursday. It means the convict, 48-year-old Wayne Couzens who pleaded guilty to the kidnap, rape, and murder of Everard, will most likely die in prison as the sentence comes without any possibility of parole or conditional release unless there are exceptional compassionate grounds to warrant it. Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was walking home in the evening on March 3 after having dinner at a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, when she was kidnapped by then Metropolitan police officer Couzens, who made a fake COVID arrest, drove Everard to Kent before raping her, strangling her to death with his police belt, burning her body in a fridge, and disposing of her remains, the court heard on Wednesday. Sentencing Couzens, Lord Justice Fulford said the circumstances of the case are “devastating, tragic, and wholly brutal,” and the seriousness …
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