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Whole-life sentences

The murder of Sarah Everard

Hannah Eldridge summarises the 2021 case that saw a Metropolitan police officer receive a whole-life sentence

This case is relevant to the following topics studied: murder, sentencing, appeals and human rights.

Sarah Everard was a 33-year-old woman who lived in London. On the evening of 3 March 2021, Sarah was walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham. She was stopped on a busy main road by a serving Metropolitan police officer, Wayne Couzens. He showed her his warrant card and falsely arrested her on the basis that she had breached the Covid-19 regulations in force at the time.

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