Former policeman Wayne Couzens has been sentenced to life for the murder of Sarah Everard.
Lord Justice Fulford has sentenced Wayne Couzens to a whole-life order.
A whole-life order means the criminal is in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole.
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The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to the kidnap, rape and murder of the the 33-year-old after he confronted her as she walked home from a friend's house through Clapham, in South London.
Couzens was serving as a Metropolitan Police Officer when he 'fake arrested' the marketing executive to kidnap her.
He was arrested at his home address on March 9, 2021, before Sarah’s body was found in a woodland stream close to an abandoned leisure centre near Ashford.
This week courts heard how the firearms officer went from finishing a 12-hour shift at the American embassy to murdering Sarah.
After arresting and putting Sarah Everard in handcuffs on March 3, Couzens drove to a secluded rural area near Dover in Kent, where he parked up and raped her.
It has since been revealed that Couzens strangled her with his police belt and then burned her body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood.
He then hid her remains in a nearby pond before she was discovered by police.
Today at Old Bailey Lord Justice Fulford described Wayne Couzens' crimes as 'grosteque.'
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During sentencing, he said: "Sarah Everard was a wholly blameless victim of a grotesquely executed series of offences which cumulated in her death...she was simply walking home mid evening.
"She was an intelligent, resourceful, talented and much loved young women still in the early years of her life.
"I have not the slightest doubt that the defendant used his position as a police officer to coerce her in pretence to lure her into his car which he had hired for this purpose.
"It is most likely he said that she had breached the Covid restrictions that were being enforced. Any explanation other than coercion fails to take into account her character."
Couzens sat with his head bowed as defence barrister Jim Sturman QC asked the judge not to impose a whole-life prison sentence.
He said: "Nothing I say today is at all intended to minimise the horror of what this defendant did that night and afterwards. He makes no excuses for his actions. He accepts he will receive and deserves a severe punishment.
"No right-minded person who listened to the statements of the Everard family can feel anything other than revulsion for what he did. He is filled with self-loathing and shame and he should be."
Mr Sturman said Couzens’ family are “baffled” by what led him to carry out the sickening crime.
During the first day of Couzens' two-day sentencing, Sarah's mum, Susan, father, Jeremy, and sister, Katie, read out their personal impact statements to the court.
Sara's mum said she has dreamt of her daughter and every night at the time she was taken by Couzens she lets out a silent scream of: "Don't get in the car, Sarah. Don't believe him. Run!"
She said the way Couzens burned her daughter's body was "the final insult" which meant "they could never see her sweet face and never say goodbye."
Sarah's father Jeremy spoke of how pained he felt that he was not able to save his daughter from Couzens' evil clutches.
He said: "A father wants to look after his children and fix everything and you have deliberately and with pre meditation stopped my ability to do that.
"No punishment that you receive will ever compare to the pain and torture that you have inflicted on us."
