Wayne Couzens has been sentenced for committing indecent exposure days before he murdered Sarah Everard.
It's been two years since 33-year-olddisappeared. It was later determined that Wayne Couzens, a 48-year-old serving police officer, had kidnapped and murdered her while she was walking home.
He is already serving a whole life sentence for the murder of Everard, so the sentencing doesn't affect the amount of time he will serve in prison – he will never be released. However, the sentencing has highlighted serious police failures that could have prevented Couzens from leveraging his power as a serving police officer to abduct, rape, and murder Everard.
One of the hospitality workers Couzens exposed himself to described the anguish this caused to the court, saying in her victim statement, "I had no one contact me or ask for a statement. It was only after Sarah’s murder that I became involved. If he had been held accountable when we had reported the crime, we could have saved Sarah.”
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