Sarah Everard’s murderer PC Wayne Couzens launches APPEAL against whole life sentence
SARAH Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens has launched an appeal against his whole-life term sentence, it has been revealed.
The former Met Police officer, 48, pleaded guilty to the kidnap and murder of Sarah – using Covid powers to falsely arrest the 33-year-old.
In October Couzens joined the grim ranks of criminals in the UK who will die behind bars after receiving a whole life tariff.
But according to , Couzens will be appealing his rare whole-life term.
A court official said: “We have been notified that an appeal has been lodged by Mr Couzens.”
Lord Justice Fulford imposed the rare order, which just 61 criminals in the UK have, as he abused his position as a police officer.
Couzens also became the first British cop to ever receive the sentence.
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.”
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”.
Lord Justice Fulford said Couzens carried out “warped, selfish and brutal offending that was both sexual and homicidal”.
He added: “Sarah Everard’s state of mind, and what she had to endure would have been as bleak and agonising as it is possible to imagine.”
If he is granted the appeal, the case will be heard by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.
After he was charged with Sarah’s murder, it emerged Couzens slipped through the net despite colleagues knowing he had indulged his dark fantasies.
The first incident against him was reported in 2002 – before he joined the police.
Couzens also allegedly exposed himself in a McDonald’s in South London on February 28 – just three days before Sarah’s murder.
A similar indecent exposure claim against him was also made in Kent in 2015.
But a catalogue of errors allowed vile Couzens to roam free and murder Sarah.
Even more chilling, there are now fears the monster will have struck before murdering Sarah.
Criminology Professor David Wilson said he has “no doubt” that police will be trying to link the warped killer to other unsolved crimes.
