A British police officer sentenced to life in prison for the murder of London’s Sarah Everard in the drama that shook the United Kingdom, appealed his sentence this Wednesday.
“A request has been filed” to appeal the verdict, said a spokesman for the London Court of Appeal, quoted by French news agency AFP.
On the night of March 3, 48-year-old Wayne Cousins used his police ID to detain a 33-year-old woman on her way home to south London.
Causens accused her of violating containment rules (introduced as part of the covid-19 pandemic), handcuffed her and forced her into his car, where he raped and strangled her, and then set her body on fire in the woods an hour and a half from London to London …
On 30 September, the police were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release – an exceptional decision in the United Kingdom as it usually only applies in cases of terrorism.
After reading the verdict, Judge Adrian Fulford emphasized the “abuse of the police role” in this crime, which had “particularly brutal circumstances.”
The incident caused a stir in the UK and prompted many women to talk about their feelings of insecurity.
