A new inquiry has been launched to identify systemic failures that allowed Sarah Everard’s murderer to be employed as a police officer, the Home Office announced on Tuesday. Wayne Couzens, 48, was jailed for life on Thursday for the kidnap, rape, and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive. Couzens was a serving Metropolitan Police officer when he abducted his victim by making a fake arrest on March 3. Announcing the inquiry, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the “tragic events have exposed unimaginable failures in policing.” “It is abhorrent that a serving police officer was able to abuse his position of power, authority, and trust to commit such a horrific crime,” Patel said in a statement. “The public have a right to know what failures enabled his continued employment as a police officer and an inquiry will give the independent oversight needed to ensure something like this can never happen again,” she added. The …