The abduction, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard by a London police officer has dealt a “devastating blow” to public confidence and police officers will have to do more to rebuilt trust, the UK’s policing minister Kit Malthouse said on Friday. 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 Wayne Couzens, who made a fake COVID-19 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. Couzens, 48, was handed a whole life order on Thursday. He 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. Speaking on Sky …
UK Police Must Work Hard to Rebuild Trust After Sarah Everard Murder: Minister
October 1, 2021
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