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'I am so sorry' says Met Commissioner Cressida Dick after Wayne Couzens whole-life sentence

Guardian, 30 Sep 2021
The Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick has said the details of Sarah Everard's murder has shaken her to her core.

Former Met police office Wayne Couzens has been given a whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard. The judge handed the relatively rare sentence based on the abuse of his position as a police officer, which he used to coerce Everard into compliance. On the night of the murder, Couzens stopped Everard in the street and staged a false arrest and handcuffing her, before driving away.
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