Wayne CouzensCould , the police officer sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and killing Sarah Everard, be stopped before his ‘brutal act’? Maybe yes. The former British police officer was found guilty of “gross negligence” and misconduct Samantha Leecharged as part of an internal investigation a Scotland Yard that he actually covered up a disciplinary investigation against the colleague who was the protagonist of the most serious of the many recent scandals involving the Metropolitan Police in London. Couzens massacred in 2021 – after a false arrest – the 33-year-old, who was the victim of one of the most shocking femicides in the kingdom’s capital.
Lee, a former police inspector, had been called in to investigate Couzens prior to the murder following reports suspected sexual abuse already appeared on the future uniformed killer; primarily for having previously harassed McDonald’s vendors in at least two counts of exhibitionism. However, he put the file back “without sufficient investigative knowledge”. The former officer defended herself after leaving the ranks of the police by admitting “mistakes” in the investigative process, but denied gross negligence on her part: negligence for which she is now held responsible instead of reviewing all internal investigations and those carried out by the new boss of Scotland Yard promised a general cleanup, Mark Rowleyto prevent a hypothetical denouement after the storm of criticism and revelations that has hit the UK’s main police force.
Sarah Everard, 33, had disappeared on the evening of March 3, 2021 on her way home to her home in Brixton and was found dead on Wednesday March 10 in Ashford, Kent, some 78 kilometers from where she was last known had been seen. The woman had decided to walk the 50 minutes to her home in south London. At 9.30 p.m. a short cell phone call with the partner, then nothing. It was the latter who reported her missing to the police the next day. At the same time that Sarah was on her way to return home not far away, Couzens was staying at the American embassy after a guard shift. Without a series of images captured by various security cameras mounted on street corners, nothing would have connected the two peopleand on the intercoms of houses and buses, showing Couzens’ car near where the girl had last given signs of life. The car was tracked camera by camera to the village of Kent, where the agent, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 2018, lives. The 33-year-old’s body was found in woodland not far from the agent’s home in Ashford, Kent. wrapped in a plastic garbage bag and only identifiable by his teeth.