Chilling footage of Wayne Couzens after he murdered Sarah Everard

Chilling movies present Wayne Couzens after he raped and murdered Sarah Everard, with the killer policeman casually visiting Costa earlier than calling a vet to e book his canine in for an appointment whereas he was burning her physique.

Further footage aired in a brand new BBC documentary exhibits the callous assassin moaning about his psychological well being throughout a police interview and mendacity that he had been pressured into kidnapping Miss Everard by an Eastern European gang.

Couzens tricked the advertising and marketing govt into entering into his rent automotive in March 2021 earlier than driving her from London to woods close to his dwelling in Deal, Kent, the place he raped and murdered her earlier than dumping her physique. 

Today, Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice revealed a photograph of the warrant card he used to influence the 33-year-old he was arresting her. 

The programme additionally revealed new footage of Couzens being interviewed at Wandsworth police station, with the firearms officer seen moaning about his psychological well being whereas rocking backward and forward. 

He had been declared medically match to be interviewed moments earlier than, and is seen sporting a white plaster on his head following an incident of self-harm.  

In the video, Couzens strikes his head from one facet to the opposite and appears away as he says ‘I’m in a darkish place’ after being requested how he’s feeling.

During the interview, he’s proven an image of Miss Everard and requested if he recognises her.

After leaning ahead to have a look at the picture, he then shuts his eyes and rocks backward and forward and replies ‘no remark’. 

He exhibits no emotion as it’s revealed to him the image is of Miss Everard and solutions ‘no remark’ once more as he’s requested if he used his warrant card to lure her into his employed automotive.

He rolls his head round because the detective says to him: ‘Is that how she trusted you? Because clearly as a police officer we all know we’re ready… individuals belief us, do not they?

‘People belief us to take care of them. People belief us to assist them. Protect and serve, that is what they are saying. We all took that oath. You included.’

Couzens kidnapped Miss Everard from Poynders Road after convincing her to get into his automotive by exhibiting his warrant card at round 9.35pm on March 3. 

He then took her to Hoads Wood close to Ashford the place he raped and murdered her, earlier than hiding her physique beneath a dumped industrial fridge. 

He then returned dwelling and at 8.15am the next day – March 4 – he was caught on CCTV casually shopping for a scorching chocolate with coconut milk and a Bakewell tart from a Costa Coffee store in Dover.

Couzens referred to as in sick and spent the day at dwelling earlier than going out to purchase petrol in a jerry can, which he took again to the wooden.

He was recorded calling a vet to e book in for an appointment about his canine’s ‘separation anxiousness’ – on the very second police consider he was burning Miss Everard’s physique. 

‘The indisputable fact that he was in a position to do issues that have been so horrific and factor that have been so mundane and regular on the identical time is actually chilling,’ Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, instructed the BBC documentary. 

Couzens was finally tracked down by detectives after discovering CCTV of Miss Everard standing by a automotive he had employed and he was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping simply earlier than 8pm on March 9. 

Footage exhibits a workforce led by detective Nick Harvey interviewing Couzens as he sits on a settee. 

The killer is proven an image of Miss Everard and after denying understanding who she is goes on to confess kidnapping her earlier than spinning a false story about being compelled into doing so by an Eastern European gang.

A just lately revealed report discovered there have been repeated missed alternatives to cease Couzens that left him in a position to keep within the police regardless of being a serial intercourse offender with a repute for disturbing sexual behaviour.

An inquiry discovered Couzens’ historical past of alleged sexual offending dated again almost 20 years earlier than he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah in Clapham, south London.

The married father of two was reported to police eight occasions for indecent publicity between 2008 and 2021 however was in a position to proceed within the police resulting from ‘torpid and insufficient’ investigations, a report discovered.

Inquiry chair Lady Elish Angiolini recognized no less than 5 incidents which weren’t reported to police and warned there might be extra victims.

It emerged for the primary time that Couzens, now 51, allegedly carried out a ‘very critical sexual assault of a kid barely into her teenagers’ whereas he was in his twenties.

Couzens was accused of making an attempt to kidnap a girl at knifepoint in North London in 1995 whereas aged 23. He was additionally accused of raping two girls and indecently touching a person in a bar whereas sporting a blonde wig.

Lady Elish discovered the married father of two ‘may and may’ have been stopped from getting a job as an officer, and that with no radical overhaul of British policing, there may be ‘nothing to cease one other Couzens working in plain sight’.

The inquiry workforce discovered that there have been situations the place he confirmed excessive violent pornography to associates and police colleagues, in a transfer to check their boundaries, and despatched unsolicited pictures of his genitals to girls.

Both Kent and the Metropolitan Police have been criticised for insufficient investigations into claims of indecent publicity towards Couzens.

There was a collection of incidents the place he was accused of flashing – three of which he was sentenced for final yr, regardless of already having acquired a complete life jail time period for Sarah Everard’s homicide.

These have been masturbating in entrance of a lone feminine bicycle owner in a Kent nation lane in 2020, and twice exposing his genitals to employees at a quick meals restaurant in February 2021 within the days earlier than Sarah’s homicide.

He drove his personal automotive and used his personal bank card on the outlet however no motion was taken on the time, with investigating officer Pc Samantha Lee later sacked for failing to research correctly.

Another two comparable incidents on the quick meals restaurant have been ordered to lie on file, and there have been two incidents in 2008 and 2021 that have been reported to the Met and Kent respectively on the time when Couzens allegedly uncovered himself, however there was inadequate proof to deliver expenses.

In 2015, a member of the general public reported having seen a person driving round in Kent along with his genitalia uncovered, giving the make, mannequin, color and registration variety of the automotive.

Couzens was recognized because the keeper of the automotive however Kent Police closed the investigation with no additional motion and with out even talking to him.

Lady Elish Angiolini mentioned: ‘This was a grave error and a really apparent purple flag.’

Today, Sadiq Khan will pledge to drive by way of cultural reforms within the Metropolitan Police to revive belief within the pressure after the damning report about missed probabilities to cease Sarah’s killer.

After the third anniversary of Sarah’s dying, the mayor of London will open the newest London Policing Board by expressing his ‘deepest sympathies’ to her family members, and labelling Lady Elish’s report ‘probably the most shattering accounts of failure in British policing historical past’.

‘Knowing {that a} police officer harboured the capability for such sadistic violence nonetheless haunts our metropolis,’ Mr Khan will say.

‘It’s a perpetual reminder of why we’re right here and the significance of this board.

‘Our activity is among the most pressing dealing with London at this time: to make sure we drive by way of the wide-ranging cultural and efficiency reforms wanted inside the Met, to make sure that we assist and problem the commissioner in his mission – in order that we will renew belief and confidence in policing in our capital.

‘Whilst the Met is now on the trail to elementary reform, we’re clearly not there but.

‘I see police reform as a vital a part of my mayoralty, and we should not be glad till Londoners have the police service they deserve.’

The board will hear from Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley about progress on addressing the findings and proposals of the Casey Review, which was commissioned by the Met after Ms Everard’s homicide.

It discovered the pressure was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist, and that there is perhaps extra officers like Couzens in its ranks.

Couzens was given a uncommon whole-life sentence for the rape and homicide of Sarah. It means he’ll die in jail.