Footage shows Miss Everard on the pavement with depraved Met officer moments before he kidnapped her – Chilling moment killer cop seized Sarah Everard: Dashcam video shows Wayne Couzens using Covid laws to make fake arrest of his victim on a London street – before forcing her into car, raping and murdering her.
This is the chilling moment killer cop Wayne Couzens stopped Sarah Everard on the street as he used Covid laws as a ploy to ‘arrest’ the marketing executive and force her into his rental car.
Footage taken from a passing dashcam shows the 33-year-old stood on a pavement on Poynders Road in Clapham as Couzens, who was wearing handcuffs on his police belt, speaks to her.
Earlier, he had spent two hours driving through central and south London – prowling Kensington, Lavender Hill and Earls Court for a lone young woman to abduct – before stalking Miss Everard and stopping next to her.
The twisted Met Protection Officer can be seen producing his warrant card as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions.
Couzens then cuffed her hands behind her back, leaving her incapable of undoing the seatbelt he strapped around her after ordering her into the back of his rental car.
As the depraved killer watched in the Old Bailey with his head bowed, Miss Everard’s family heard in horrific detail how Miss Everard spent her final hours before the serving Metropolitan Police officer raped and murdered her, and then burned her body in a pre-meditated attack that was weeks in the planning.
It coincided with a string of increasingly sick behaviour which saw the married father-of-two flashing two women in McDonald’s across two separate incidents.
Witnesses later described how Miss Everard – who had spent the evening at a friend’s house sharing a bottle of wine – appeared ‘compliant’ with her ‘head down’ as the ‘confident-looking’ officer made what seemed to be a late-night arrest at the height of lockdown in March.
CCTV footage captured by a passing bus showed Miss Everard in the back seat of Couzens’ hire car after she was falsely ‘arrested’.
Couzens, who lied to his family about working a night shift that evening, then drove Miss Everard 80 miles to a remote stretch of road in his home county of Kent. It was here that he forcibly moved her into his own Seat vehicle.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC said: ‘She must have realised her fate.’
Footage the 33-year-old stood on the pavement with Couzens moments before he kidnapped her. Miss Everard is beneath the yellow arrow while Couzens’ arrow is purple
The deranged Met Protection Officer, who was wearing his police belt containing handcuffs, can be seen producing his warrant card as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions
CCTV footage of Miss Everard captured earlier on the night she was kidnapped in March, sparking a nationwide hunt
Wayne Couzens (left, in his uniform with his police belt circled); and right, in a court sketch) kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in depraved crime after he had finished his shift
Miss Everard’s disappearance sparked a huge manhunt and led to an outpouring of anger about the safety of women on the streets