Police took no action after Couzens exposed himself three times before he went on to murder Sarah Everard
Police missed clear chances to identify Wayne Couzens as a potential sex offender and a danger to women before he kidnapped and murderedHe exposed himself three times, with witnesses recording either full registration details of vehicles he used, or partial details. But police took no action, leaving Couzens to continue as a serving Metropolitan police officer entrusted with a gun.
Couzens was charged with a string of indecent exposure offences after his conviction for Everard’s murder, with court proceedings covered by tight reporting restrictions so he could get a fair trial. In a ruling from a pre-trial hearing, Mrs Justice May wrote: “The first offence dates from June 2015 when [name of witness] driving with his wife and two-year-old along London Road in Dover called in to Kent police to report a man in a car which they had just passed driving along with his erect penis exposed.
“She was scared and shaken and could do nothing but cycle past, up the hill, as fast as she was able. She noticed a black car parked 50 metres further on and recalled a partial numberplate.” “These cases are extreme and high-profile, but we have spoken with hundreds of women who are victims of police-perpetrated abuse who have similar stories of their reports being dismissed out of hand.”After the conclusion of Monday’s case, the Met said: “On 28 February 2021, the Met received an allegation of exposure at a location in Swanley, Kent. This was recorded and passed to a local officer to investigate.
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