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<\/p>\nSARAH Everard vanished while walking home from her friend's house in Clapham on March 3.<\/p>\n
Her killer PC Wayne Couzens, 48, was later sentenced to a full life tariff in prison on September 30, 2021.<\/p>\n
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Couzens is a 48-year-old constable with the Met Police who lived in Deal with his wife and their two young kids.<\/p>\n
Couzens had served with the Met since 2018 and was attached to an armed unit responsible for guarding the London parliamentary estate and embassies.<\/p>\n
The dad-of-two was then arrested at his home in Deal, Kent, six days after Sarah went missing on March 3, 2021. <\/p>\n
The Met Police confirmed that the suspect was not on duty at the time of Sarah's disappearance.<\/p>\n
A neighbour in Deal, Kent, said: \u201cHe\u2019s known as a police officer throughout the street."<\/p>\n
Couzens commuted into London from his coastal home to guard some of Britain\u2019s most high-profile buildings and people.<\/p>\n
It was his dream come true after previously working for more than 20 years at a garage run by his dad Ray in Dover.<\/p>\n
BCB Dover at Western Heights closed in 2015 after 48 years. <\/p>\n
Couzens started as an apprentice in 1990 working as a light-vehicle body repair technician.<\/p>\n
He worked there until 2011 before following in the footsteps of his brother David and becoming a cop.<\/p>\n
He joined the Civil Nuclear Constabulary before moving on to serve in the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n
Shaven-headed Couzens was highly regarded among colleagues for his calm approach \u2014 a key attribute for a gun cop.<\/p>\n
He was based at Dungeness and received firearms training with the nuclear force.<\/p>\n
Couzens transferred to the Met in September 2018 and worked as an armed diplomatic protection officer based in Westminster and guarding embassies and high-profile potential targets.<\/p>\n
Couzens had been living with his wife, children and their pug dog.<\/p>\n
Friends said he enjoyed running and cycling. He also repaired motorbikes and spent a lot of time on his front drive.<\/p>\n
The ex-cop pleaded guilty to the murder of Sarah Everard on Friday, July 9, 2021.<\/p>\n
He had previously pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape and accepted the responsibility\u00a0for the 33-year-old's killing.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping Ms Everard "unlawfully and by force or fraud" on March 3, 2021<\/p>\n
He also pleaded guilty to a second charge of rape between March 2 and 10.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Met Police\u00a0officer appeared via video link at the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n
Sarah's family watched from the public gallery as the monster whispered his formal plea.<\/p>\n
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On September 30, Wayne Cousins was told that he would die in prison after being given a full life tariff for Sarah's murder. <\/p>\n
Lord Justice Fulford imposed the rare order, which just 61 criminals in the UK have, as he abused his position as a police officer.<\/p>\n
He also became the first British cop to ever receive the sentence.<\/p>\n
The judge said: "Sarah Everard was a wholly blameless victim of a grotesquely executed series of circumstances that culminated in her death and the disposal of her body. She was simply walking home.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told how Couzens spent a month travelling from his home in Deal, Kent, to London while hatching a gruesome plan to "hunt a lone female to kidnap and rape".<\/p>\n
Lord Justice Fulford said Couzens carried out "warped, selfish and brutal offending that was both sexual and homicidal".<\/p>\n
He added: "Sarah Everard\u2019s state of mind, and what she had to endure would have been as bleak and agonising as it is possible to imagine."<\/p>\n
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Sarah disappeared after leaving a friend's house in Clapham, South London, on the evening of Wednesday, March 3.<\/p>\n
At about 9pm she left the property and began walking to her home in Brixton.<\/p>\n
She was captured on CCTV at 9.30pm in Clapham after spending 15 minutes on the phone with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Her boyfriend reported her missing on March 4, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
A huge search was launched after she disappeared with police searching ponds in the area.<\/p>\n
Detectives investigating her disappearance charged a serving Met Police officer in his 40s – later identified as Wayne Couzens.<\/p>\n
A week after she disappeared, her body was discovered in a woodland in Ashford, Kent.<\/p>\n
On June 1, 2021, post-mortem results revealed that Sarah died from compression to the neck.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police said: "A post-mortem examination into the death of Sarah Everard held at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford has given cause of death as compression of the neck.<\/p>\n
"Sarah's family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers."<\/p>\n
An inquest opened and adjourned in March heard how the pathologist had "not given a medical cause of death".<\/p>\n
Sarah's death has since sparked vigils across the country and demands for action to tackle violence against women.<\/p>\n