Sarah Everard's mother's screams 'don't get in the car, Sarah. Run!'
公開日:2021/11/07 / 最終更新日:2021/11/07
‘s family stared down her killer in court as her father demanded he faced him while her mother and sister told him he was a monster who revolted and disgusted them.
Susan Everard told the Old Bailey every evening she cries out to warn her daughter, 28, not to trust the murderer.
She told Wayne Couzens as he sat in the dock: ‘In the evenings, at the time she was abducted, I let out a silent scream: Don’t get in the car, Sarah.Don’t believe him. Run!’
Ms Everard’s father Jeremy ordered Couzens to look at him as he pointed at him and told him ‘I can never forgive you’
And her sister Katie fought back tears as she told him ‘It disgusts me that you were the last person to touch her’.
Couzens appeared to shake as he was declared the ‘very worst of humanity’ by his victim’s grieving relatives.
In an emotion-filled victim impact statement Mrs Everard said she was ‘haunted’ by the horror of her daughter’s murder.
She added: ‘Sarah died in horrendous circumstances.I am tormented at the thought of what she endured.
‘Sarah was handcuffed, unable to defend herself, and there was no one to rescue her. She spent the last hours on this earth with the very worst of humanity.
‘She lost her life because Wayne Couzens wanted to satisfy his perverted desires.It is a ridiculous reason. It is nonsensical. How could he value a human life so cheaply?
‘I am incandescent with rage at the thought of it. He treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.’
It came on a harrowing day of evidence which heard how Couzens used Covid laws to stop, handcuff and stage the fake arrest of her daughter during a pre-planned kidnap before strangling her ‘with his police belt’.
Couzens, 48, cuffed the 33-year-old marketing executive’s hands behind her back, leaving her incapable of undoing the seatbelt he strapped around her after ordering her into the back of his rental car.
Earlier that night he had spent two hours driving through central and south London – prowling Kensington, Lavender Hill and Earls Court – while on the hunt for a lone young woman to abduct.
Witnesses later described how Ms Everard appeared ‘compliant’ with her ‘head down’ and ‘not arguing’ with the ‘confident-looking’ officer making what appeared to be a late-night arrest at the height of lockdown in March.
Couzens, who had lied to his family that he was working a night shift that evening, then drove his victim 80 miles to a remote stretch of road in his home county of Kent. It was here that he forcibly moved Ms Everard into his own Seat vehicle.
Couzens took her to a rural area and raped her, before later being seen buying Lucozade and other drinks from BP station with her body in boot, after she was believed to have been murdered.
Mrs Everard said she was ‘repulsed’ by the thought of what Couzens did.
She added: ‘I am outraged that he masqueraded as a policeman in order to get what he wanted.’
Jeremy Everard demanded that her daughter’s killer look at him and take off his mask as he delivered an emotional victim impact statement in court.
He pointed at him as he told Couzens: ‘I can never forgive you for what you have done, for taking Sarah away from us.
‘You burnt our daughter’s body – you further tortured us – so that we could not see her again.’
Couzens appeared to shake in the dock as Mr Everard went on: ‘You murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends.
‘Sarah had so much to look forward to and because of you this has now gone forever.’
Ms Everard’s sister Katie broke down as she delivered her statement and shouted at Couzens to look at her as she revealed her devastation.
She told him: There is no punishment that you could receive that will ever compare to the pain you have caused us.We can never get Sarah back. The last moments of Sarah’s life play on my mind constantly.
As Couzens watched in the Old Bailey with his head bowed, the court heard horrific details of the serving police officer’s deceit and Sarah’s final hours before she was raped, murdered and burned in a pre-meditated attack that was weeks in the planning:
- Prosecution say five words summarise what PC Wayne Couzens did to Sarah Everard: ‘Deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire’;
- Friends in Deal said Couzens was regularly seen wearing his police belt with handcuffs and pepper spray, when not on duty, and he lied that he was an undercover police officer;
- In December 2020 he joined Match.com and said he had no wife and children. He also signed up to an escort agency;
- In January 2021, Couzens worked on COVID patrols and ‘used this knowledge’ to kidnap his victim, who he stopped after doing laps of west and south-west London on the night of March 3, 2021;
- On February 10 he bought a ‘police standard issue handcuff key with double locking pin’ from Amazon, which he used on his police-issue cuffs to detain Sarah Everard and force her into his hire car;
- On February 28, Couzens booked a hire car buy painkillers online from Enterprise and ordered a 100m roll of carpet protector film from Amazon, used to line the boot where he eventually kept Sarah’s body;
- He had told his wife that he was working a night shift when he grabbed Sarah – in fact he was off duty and cruising the streets looking for a victim;
- A couple driving past witnessed the kidnapping.
Couzens using his warrant card and handcuffs to make a false arrest. They believed she had ‘done something wrong’ so didn’t intervene;
- A former boyfriend said Sarah was ‘extremely intelligent, savvy and streetwise’ and would never get into a stranger’s vehicle ‘unless by force or by manipulation’, which is exactly what Couzens did;
- Sarah was driven 80 miles to the Kent coast, where she was raped and murdered after a five-hour ordeal;
- In 2019 Wayne Couzens bought plot of woodland in Hoads Wood near Ashford.
He bragged it was ‘perfect for day trips’ – but it’s where he burned Sarah’s body and dumped it in bags in shallow water;
- Couzens took his family on a trip to the woods where he burned Miss Everard’s body – allowing his children to play near where it was dumped;
- Phoned vet to arrange for an appointment to see his dog and handed in his Met Police firearms licence;
- Lied about being forced to ‘pick up a girl’ by an Eastern European gang who threatened his family;
- Admits to killing her with his belt – with prosecution saying injuries were consistent with his police belt.
Susan Everard reads her victim impact statement and tells Wayne Couzens how appalled she is by his actions in court
Miss Everard’s family leave the Old Bailey after a previous hearing where Couzens made two guilty pleas.Her father Jeremy is seen on the left, with her sister Katie can be seen on the right.
Wayne Couzens (left, in his uniform with his police belt circled); and right, in a court sketch) kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in depraved crime after he had finished his shift
Miss Everard’s disappearance sparked a huge manhunt and led to an outpouring of anger about the safety of women on the streets
Couzens, 48, cuffed the 33-year-old marketing executive’s hands behind her back, leaving her incapable of escape
CCTV footage of Miss Everard captured earlier on the night she was kidnapped in March, sparking a nationwide hunt
Police search woodland near to where Miss Everard’s body was found.Couzens burned her body and dumped it in a pond
Couzens’ car journey around London as he cruised to find a woman to abduct, rape and murder after his fake arrest con
The court heard he confessed to a psychiatrist that he had strangled Miss Everard with his belt, and the prosecution said her injuries were consistent with ones that would have been caused by his police belt.
Couzens – who had prepared for the abduction by buying a rental car and a sheet of film from Amazon – hid her body inside a fridge in a patch of rubbish-strewn woodland before torching it.
The father-of-two then took his wife and children on a family trip to those same woods just days later and allowed the youngsters to play near a pond where he had dumped her remains, the prosecution said.
Quizzed by police, he lied that he had been ‘leant on’ by an Eastern European gang who threatened to harm his family if he did not agree to pick up a woman and hand her over to the occupants of a gang near Maidstone.
Taken to Wandsworth Police Station, he repeatedly tried to self-harm by banging his head on a sink and running into a wall, and was put under constant watch before appearing in court.
Today Ms Everard’s family and friends gave victim impact statements to the Old Bailey.Her father, Jeremy Everard, demanded Couzens look at him while he was giving his testimony.
Fake arrest ‘for breaking lockdown rules’ used to kidnap Miss Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house
Wayne Couzens accused Sarah Everard of breaking lockdown rules to make a ‘fake arrest’, the Old Bailey heard today.
The policeman used his handcuffs and warrant card to snatch Miss Everard as she walked home from visiting a friend in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3.
The sexual predator, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift that morning, went on to rape and strangle the 33-year-old marketing executive before setting fire to her body.
A week after she disappeared, Miss Everard’s remains were found in a woodland stream in Ashford, Kent, just yards from land owned by Couzens.
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