Wayne Couzens pleads guilty to Sarah Everards murder

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Wayne Couzens pleads guilty to Sarah Everard's murder

Wayne Couzens hired a car and bought adhesive tape online in the days before the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, then told investigators he handed her alive to an Eastern European gang.

Sarah Everard

Date - 9th July 2021
By - Chloe Livadeas

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PC Wayne Couzens, 48, kidnapped Ms Everard in a hire car as she walked home alone from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3. He had clocked off from a 12-hour shift that morning Couzens, a...

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