British police officer Wayne Cousins kidnapped young Englishwoman Sarah Everard as she was returning home on a street in the English capital London in March this year, and handcuffed her to a false arrest for violating the conditions of detention against the new coronavirus before being raped and murdered. On Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office working on the case revealed the details of the crime.
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The young woman was strangled and her body was burned. The victim’s remains were found in the forest and wrapped in a sack a week after the abduction. The autopsy results showed that the woman died from compression on the neck.
On the first of two days of the hearing, District Attorney Tom Little reported how police detained Sarah, accusing her of violating travel restrictions. Cousins, who was off duty, kidnapped Sarah with a “fictitious arrest”, “handcuffing her and showing her documents,” the prosecutor added.
This scene was captured by a CCTV camera from the street. The couple driving in their car was also a witness in the case and suggested they assumed that Causens was the undercover cop who made the arrest, Tom Little added.
Causens, a 48-year-old agent of the London police’s elite diplomatic protection unit, confessed in July to kidnapping, rape and murder.
The disappearance of the 33-year-old Londoner rocked the UK, sparking protests and serious debate over the safety of women on the streets.
Cousins’ verdict is expected to be announced on Thursday.
