Sarah Everard case: ‘All the vetting in the world wouldn’t have sussed out Wayne Couzens’

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Police corruption within forces in England and Wales must be cut to the “irreducible minimum” following the Sarah Everard case, a police watchdog has said.

But retired Detective Chief Inspector Mike Neville tells GB News “all the vetting in the world wouldn’t have sussed out Wayne Couzens.”

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Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, left a friend’s home in the Clapham neighborhood of London at 9 p.m. on March 3 2021. She never arrived at her Brixton home, some 50 minutes walk away. It was later discovered she had been kidnapped, raped and murdered by an off duty Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens, who, after his arrest in June, in July 2021 pleaded guilty to all three offences, and was imprisoned for life without parole.

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In This Story: Wayne Couzens

Wayne Couzens, who was a Metropolitan Police officer at the time, kidnapped Sarah Everard on the evening of 3 March as she was walking home in London, UK.

On 8 June 2021 Wayne Couzens, 48, pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Ms Everard and on 9 July 2021 pleaded guilty to her murder.

He was later sentenced to life imprisonment, without parole.

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