The former British police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard in March kidnapped his victim by using his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card to make a fake COVID-19 arrest, a court has heard. 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 firearm officer Wayne Couzens. The 48-year-old has pleaded guilty to kidnap, rape, and murder, and faces a possible full life sentence when he is sentenced by Lord Justice Fulford on Thursday. Couzens sat in the dock with his head bowed on Wednesday as prosecutor Tom Little QC opened the case in front of a packed courtroom, including Everard’s family. Little said Couzens would have known what language to use to those who may have breached the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions since he had worked on uniformed COVID-19 patrols in late January …