The abduction, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard by a London police officer has dealt a “devastating blow” to public confidence and police officers will have to do more to rebuilt trust, the UK’s policing minister Kit Malthouse said on Friday.
Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was walking home in the evening on March 3 after having dinner at a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, when she was kidnapped by then Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens, who made a fake COVID-19 arrest, drove Everard to Kent before raping her, strangling her to death with his police belt, burning her body in a fridge, and disposing of her remains.
