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Just after 9:00 PM, Sarah 
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and began her familiar walk home
in the dark. 

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She stuck to well lit roads. 
She had her boyfriend on the 

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phone. 
Everything about this journey 

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actually felt safe. 
But just as she was starting to 

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get close to home, someone 
stopped her and took her. 

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The more details that emerged, 
the more unsettling this case 

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became, because the person 
responsible for Sarah's murder 

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was someone that most of us 
would have trusted, and her 

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killer knew it. 
Outlaw. 

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Hello and welcome to Outlaw 
Podcast. 

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I'm Ellen O'Neill and in today's
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2021 where the boyfriend, 
friends and family of Sarah 

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Everard are starting to realize 
that something isn't right. 

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It's a Thursday, a work day, and
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now. 
But her Co workers are saying 

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that she never turned up. 
They realise that texts are no 

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longer delivering to her, phone 
calls aren't going through and 

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the concern only grows as the 
hours pass and soon her 

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boyfriend has reported her 
missing to the police. 

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Within days, a full scale 
operation to find her is 

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underway. 
Only Sarah Everard wouldn't be 

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found alive. 
For international listeners, I 

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really can't overstate just how 
huge this case became here in 

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the UK. 
It stayed in public conversation

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for such a long time afterwards.
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especially among women, everyone
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It was like the rug had been 
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and a false sense of security 
that we had was exposed and 

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broken. 
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still gets brought up constantly
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safety and trust come up, so I 
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it into the conversation here on
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Now, before we get into the 
case, I do just want to give my 

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usual disclaimer that I mean 
absolutely no harm or disrespect

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to anyone that we talk about in 
this video. 

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Our episodes are made with the 
utmost care to honour those who 

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lost their lives and respect the
profound grief their loved ones 

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and joy. 
By covering these cases, we aim 

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to keep the victims names and 
stories in conversation and 

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highlight the vital work that so
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the wake of their deaths. 
Given the nature of today's 

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episode, we'll be covering some 
very sensitive topics including 

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sexual assault, rape, abduction,
violence against women and 

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murder. 
This episode is created with the

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hope to raise awareness to 
inspire change and further 

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Victim Support. 
Viewer discretion is advised. 

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Now it's time to introduce you 
to Sarah Everard, a kind, 

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intelligent, beautiful girl who 
would devastatingly cross paths 

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with evil in disguise. 
But before the awful thing 

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happened, Sarah had made an 
incredible life for herself, 

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filled with happiness, love and 
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So let's begin with who she was 
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Sarah Everard was born in Surrey
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14th, 1987 to parents Jeremy and
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They already had two kids, James
and Katie, so Sarah was the baby

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of the family and they all 
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It was a super close from 
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The Everads were very family 
oriented and would do anything 

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for one another. 
While Sarah was still very 

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young, her family picked up and 
moved to York in the north of 

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England so that her dad could 
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university. 
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more like home to Sarah than 
Surrey ever did. 

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She really grew up there in York
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years there. 
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Sarah into the wonderful young 
woman that she would someday be.

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Very early on in her life, one 
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and that was that Sarah was a 
very clever girl. 

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She was naturally gifted with 
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But don't get me wrong, she was 
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She didn't close by on her 
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She worked hard to strengthen 
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Doing well in school meant a lot
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I mean, she was a good egg. 
She was honest, she was 

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dependable. 
She was reliable and thoughtful.

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The kind of person that you 
would want to be friends with or

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the kind of student that you 
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Her parents must have known very
early on that Sarah was going to

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grow into a wonderful young 
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She had super strong values. 
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Trust, generosity and empathy 
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her. 
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mention how stunning, cunningly 
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She had this gorgeous, warm, 
welcoming smile, long blonde 

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WAVY hair. 
At the age of 18, when she had 

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finished her eye levels, Sarah 
bagged a spot at the prestigious

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Durham University, which is 
consistently ranked in the top 

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five universities in the whole 
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It's in the top 100 worldwide. 
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how intelligent and promising 
this young woman was, then I 

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don't know what can. 
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Durham are very, very high and 
there's a lot of competition, 

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but Sarah damn well deserved 
that spot. 

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She earned it. 
She studied a human geography 

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course there. 
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was like, hold on, what is human
geography? 

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bit silly when I looked it up. 

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It's the study of the 
relationship between people, 

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communities and cultures and 
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Basically, how the planet that 
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humans that inhabit it. 
And Sarah loved her time in uni.

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Between 2005 and 2008, she made 
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including a bunch of very dear 
close connections as well. 

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One of which was a girl named 
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She and Sarah were on different 
courses, but they became very 

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close, and particularly when 
Rose's mother passed away during

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their studies, Sarah was really 
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In fact, she told Rose whatever 
time it is, day or night, call 

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me, I will be there. 
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it just came so naturally to her
to care for those around her and

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those who needed it. 
After she finished uni, Sarah 

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took some time out to travel the
world and soak up all the 

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culture and education that the 
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She went to Vietnam, Cambodia 
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Those are just a few of the 
many, many countries that she 

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explored. 
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her to come back home, well, she
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be somewhere different. 
Her mum and dad were still based

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up in York, but Sarah had big 
ambitions, the kind that 

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required a big city with big 
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So London it was. 
She moved down to the big smoke,

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settling in South London. 
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sense for her because her older 
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already moved down to the 
capital before her, so she had 

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family around here as well. 
Sarah worked her way up in a 

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marketing career, and all of her
colleagues had nothing but 

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glowing reviews for her, both as
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a person, as a woman, as a 
friend, she was amazing to be 

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around. 
By 2020, Sarah had bagged her 

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dream job and a pretty damn good
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One that meant she might 
actually be able to buy a house 

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and support a family there in 
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Which is difficult. 
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For most people, it feels quite 
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The thought of ever being able 
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city. 
But Sarah had grafted for this. 

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She had worked for and earned 
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She was so incredibly happy and 
and then in walks Mr. Right, she

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met and fell for a man named 
Josh who was equally as 

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ambitious, intelligent and 
accomplished as her. 

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It was a perfect match and 
actually he only lived just down

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the road from her. 
It was an absolutely ideal 

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situation, and by all accounts 
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But soon disaster would strike. 
Not to Sarah or Josh 

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specifically, but to the whole 
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Actually, in early 2020, the 
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spread and overnight daily life 
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I'm not entirely sure how Sarah 
herself spent the first 

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lockdowns. 
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lockdown periods here in the UK 
over 2020 and 2021. 

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Honestly, it all feels like just
one big blur now, doesn't it? 

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And mind you, the rules and 
regulations here in the UK were 

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constantly shifting and it was 
so hard to keep up. 

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One minute we were told not to 
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absolutely necessary, and then 
the next we were being 

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encouraged to go out to 
restaurants for the Eat Out to 

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Help Out scheme to keep the 
economy going. 

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And then when that inevitably 
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worse, it was back to a 
lockdown. 

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It felt like no one knew how to 
handle this, especially our 

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fucking government. 
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And then there was the concept 
of having a bubble, which was 

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like one or two people that you 
were allowed to meet up with 

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inside. 
And the rules around your bubble

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were even more vague. 
Quite frankly, everyone was 

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doing the whole bubble thing 
differently, and a lot of people

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were doing it wrong, but 
actually no one really knew how 

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to do it right. 
And by March 20/21, it had been 

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just over a year of these 
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And to say that it had gotten 
messy and confusing would be the

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understatement of the century. 
At this point in time, the legal

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wording around it all was that 
you weren't allowed to leave 

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your house without a reasonable 
excuse, which is obviously down 

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to interpretation. 
What counted as a reasonable 

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excuse was different for each 
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reasonable enough, you would 
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there could be consequences. 
You could be fined or even 

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arrested. 
On the evening of March 3rd, 

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2020, 133 year old Sarah Everard
was headed to her friend's house

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for dinner. 
It was about a 45 minute walk 

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away and it wasn't a 
particularly warm day, so she 

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was bundled up in a raincoat and
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Along the way. 
She popped into a Sainsbury's 

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and picked up a bottle of red 
wine for the two of them to 

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share. 
And before long she arrived and 

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the two of them had a lovely 
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They caught up, they laughed, 
they shared stories and good 

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food. 
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Sarah gathered her things and 
set off on the rather long walk 

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back home. 
Shortly after she began the 

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journey, she called her 
boyfriend, Josh, and they caught

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up on their days for about 15 
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She walked and they talked. 
They made plans to see each 

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other the next day. 
And then at exactly 9:28 PM, the

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phone conversation ended. 
And that was the last time that 

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anyone heard from Sarah Everard.
It wasn't until the next day, 

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when she didn't show up to a 
work meeting and her boyfriend 

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couldn't get a hold of her, that
people began to realize that 

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something was wrong. 
This was totally unlike Sarah. 

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An ambitious woman dedicated to 
her career, a loving, 

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commutative girlfriend. 
She wouldn't just ghost on 

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everyone around her like this. 
Something immediately seemed 

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off, and it became even more 
concerning when texts stopped 

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delivering to her. 
Phone. 

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Calls weren't going through. 
It had either run out of battery

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and she hadn't charged it up 
again, which would have been 

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weird enough, or it had been 
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It got to a point where there 
was really no reasonable 

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explanation for her radio 
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And so at 8:00 PM that following
night, almost 24 hours since she

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was last heard from, Sarah's 
boyfriend reported her missing 

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to the police. 
Within hours, news of Sarah's 

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disappearance was spreading like
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Social media posts were going 
viral with her picture and her 

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description appealing for anyone
with information to come 

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forward. 
And the very next day, it was 

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all over the news, national news
sending shockwaves not only 

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across London, but the whole 
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Rather quickly, people were 
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that she hadn't just gotten lost
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For a while, everyone feared 
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happened to Sarah. 
Her family shared that exact 

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same fear and they immediately 
made the 220 mile journey down 

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South to London from York to 
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The route that Sarah would have 
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retraced and retraced. 
Search parties walked those 

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exact streets again and again, 
just praying that there was 

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something that they had missed, 
a clue that might lead them to 

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her. 
Within just two days, police had

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received over 120 phone calls, 
reporting tips and potential 

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sightings. 
Everything was followed up on. 

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None of them led to Sarah. 
Door to door inquiries had 

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officers speaking with over 750 
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they'd seen or heard anything 
from the night of the 

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disappearance, but again, they 
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Appeals went out to the public 
for CCTV footage, both from 

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businesses and even from 
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cameras like dash cams in their 
car or smart doorbells to see if

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the anyone had caught Sarah at 
all. 

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And only with this could police 
begin to piece together what had

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really transpired on Sarah's 
walk home. 

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CCTV footage captures Sarah 
during the 1st 15 minutes of her

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journey. 
She's going the exact route that

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would be expected and everything
seems fine. 

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There's nothing immediately 
suspicious or concerning. 

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It doesn't appear as though 
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someone's watching her. 
But after that first 15 minutes,

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the footage of her journey 
becomes inconsistent. 

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Not all of it is caught on 
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she did was on residential roads
or through public parks that 

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didn't have cameras. 
Police needed to figure out as 

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accurately as they could at what
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something had gone wrong, and 
slowly it began to piece 

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together. 
Police had asked an estate 

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agent's office close to Sarah's 
home if they could send over 

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their security footage, and they
did, but Sarah didn't appear on 

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it at all. 
Now, this was definite proof 

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that Sarah hadn't made it home 
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there was always the possibility
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safely from that walk and then 
gone back out again. 

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Or, or something could have 
happened to her at home, but now

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they knew for sure that she had 
disappeared in this rather small

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time frame and from those 
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And if anything, this actually 
made it even more concerning and

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even more difficult for the 
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route home would have possibly 
involved her taking a shortcut 

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through Clapham Common, which is
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with wooded areas and bodies of 
water and very few cameras. 

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Within 48 hours of her being 
reported missing, the search had

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intensified to a full scale 
search and rescue operation 

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focusing mainly on Clapham 
Common, that giant piece of 

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land. 
The whole thing was meticulously

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combed through and the same went
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You know, drain covers were 
lifted, bins were searched, but 

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there was nothing, not even a 
slight clue as to Sarah's 

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whereabouts. 
The police got in touch with her

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phone network provider and they 
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her phone had been used was on a
street called Cavendish Rd. just

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off of Clapham Common. 
CCTV from that road shows her 

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walking with her phone to Haria,
presumably speaking with her 

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boyfriend, and that was the last
thing she did on her phone. 

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There had been no activity at 
all from Sarah's phone since, so

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it was becoming horrifyingly 
clear to her loved ones and to 

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the public that Sarah had not 
gone willingly. 

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She had been taken. 
In fact, further investigations 

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into that specific area 
discovered that in the months 

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leading up to Sarah's 
disappearance, several women had

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reported being followed along 
those exact same roads. 

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With that, police released a 
statement urging women in the 

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area to stay extra vigilant, 
saying the local community 

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should expect to see more police
officers on patrol in the area 

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as we continue to search for 
Sarah. 

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If you want to approach them 
about any concerns you have, 

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please do so. 
We're here to support the 

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community and we genuinely want 
to help in any way we can. 

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By now. 
It was a few days into the 

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investigation and police are 
still scouring through every 

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security table that's been 
submitted for review. 

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Most of them are turning out to 
be useless, but every so often 

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they would spot Sarah. 
These videos and still images 

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would be released to the public 
as quickly as possible in hopes 

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that it could jog people's 
memories if they'd seen her that

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night. 
And then one tape comes in that 

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changes everything. 
A car's dash Cam had caught 

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Sarah standing on the side of 
the road, speaking to someone. 

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White Vauxhall Astra had been 
parked up on the side of the 

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road, its hazard lights 
flashing. 

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The driver had seemingly pulled 
over and gotten out to speak to 

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Sarah Everard. 
It was, it was at about 9:30 PM 

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and it was already dark outside.
So the footage of this 

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interaction is so blurry that 
the person stood there with her 

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can hardly be identified. 
I mean, Sarah was only really 

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identified because she was 
wearing very distinctive 

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clothing that day. 
She had a blue raincoat on and 

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like diamond patterned leggings.
She was quite easy to make out 

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even in grainy dark footage. 
But this person with her, I 

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mean, it was believed to be a 
man. 

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And that is literally all they 
could really tell from this 

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grainy image. 
So it was also out of the 

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question that the vehicle's 
registration plate could be 

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figured out. 
All in all, this footage was a 

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major lead, yet a relatively 
hard one to actually follow up 

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on. 
But just this in itself, that 

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Sarah had been stopped and 
spoken to by an unidentified 

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man, I mean, it practically 
confirmed police's worst fears. 

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Sarah had been intercepted. 
An unexpected encounter took 

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place, and then she vanished. 
So was this man responsible for 

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the fate of Sarah Everard? 
Police did more appeals for 

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footage taken specifically on 
this road now. 

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And thank God, several of the 
vehicles that drove down there 

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around that same time actually 
had dash Cam footage, one of 

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which caught the white Vauxhall 
Astra with both of its front 

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doors open, the driver's side 
and the passenger side, 

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suggesting that Sarah had 
actually gotten into the car 

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with this man that she'd been 
speaking to. 

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And then the clearest shot of 
the interaction came from a bus 

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driving past. 
And this time, it actually 

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captured the license plate in 
enough detail that police could 

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trace it. 
It turned out to be a hire car, 

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which made all of this even 
scarier. 

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I mean, had this man anticipated
kidnapping a woman that day and 

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hired a car in order to cover 
his tracks? 

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Well, if that was the intention,
it wasn't going to cover his 

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tracks for very long. 
Police got in touch with the 

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hire company, which was actually
75 miles away in Dover, and they

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could immediately hand over the 
details and the contact 

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information of the man that had 
hired that vehicle. 

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The last person known to have 
interacted with Sarah Everard. 

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But the last thing police 
expected was for this to lead 

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back to one of their own. 
The man captured on camera 

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speaking to Sarah on the night 
that she disappeared was 

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identified to be 48 year old 
Wayne Cousins, a husband, father

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of two and a serving police 
officer in the Greater London 

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area. 
He lived about 75 miles out of 

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London in Deal in Kent with his 
wife and their young son and 

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daughter. 
Cousins had been in the police 

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force in some capacity for 15 
years at this point since his 

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early to mid 30s and will dig 
further into his career journey 

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throughout this section of the 
episode. 

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But from what I can glean, he'd 
sort of had everything handed to

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him since he was very young. 
His first job was at daddy's 

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company. 
His family was pretty 

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financially well off as well. 
The only thing that he couldn't 

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get handed to him were women, 
and that would remain A touchy 

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thing for Wayne through his 
whole entire life. 

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Women didn't want him as much as
he wanted them. 

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When he reached his mid 20s, 
Wayne watched his older brother 

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go into the police force and 
this seemed to be a real Eureka 

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moment for him. 
Wayne was a man that had always 

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craved a little more power and 
authority than what's afforded 

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to your average Joe. 
Imagine you could tell someone 

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to do something and they just do
it, no questions asked just 

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because you have a badge. 
It's something we see time and 

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time again with power hungry 
cops. 

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There's a certain type of person
that gets into law enforcement 

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not because they give a shit 
about public safety and 

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protecting people, but because 
they only give a shit about 

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themselves and what it could do 
for them to have that much 

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power. 
It likely crossed his mind many,

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many times. 
The kind of things that he could

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order someone to do. 
The kind of silent intimidation 

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he could have when he walked 
into a room just by displaying 

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his badge or having a set of 
handcuffs chained to his belt. 

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So in 2004, he tried to get into
the Kent Police force and failed

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at the interview stage. 
The exact reason for this? 

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I'm not entirely sure, but this 
rejection didn't deter him. 

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He was going to have authority 
somehow. 

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He just had to figure out a way 
to get there. 

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Now and then a loophole 
presented itself. 

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Two years later, Wayne would 
have been in his mid 30s when he

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applied to be a special police 
constable and he finally got 

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accepted. 
Now this role isn't quite as 

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special as it sounds. 
Despite the name, it was a part 

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time volunteer role and the 
vetting process was much 

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different to a full time regular
police officer role. 

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I'm assuming it was much less 
strict. 

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And with that, Wayne Cousins had
found his way in. 

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He got his foot in the door. 
He was handed a certain an 

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amount of police authority so 
from there his career could 

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continue to build and along with
it his power over everyone else.

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Soon he tried out for the Kent 
Police once again for a regular 

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full time role, but he was 
turned down again, this time due

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to concerns with his finances. 
See Wayne was in a lot of debt 

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and I actually wasn't aware of 
this even though it makes total 

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sense now. 
I am aware, but they don't let 

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people in major debt become a 
cop. 

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The reason being they'd probably
be more susceptible to 

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corruption and bribery from 
criminals to turn a blind eye to

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what's going on if they were 
being paid. 

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There's not much faith that a 
man in majorly stressful debt 

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wouldn't be swayed by dirty 
money like that. 

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So Wayne was turned down from 
the full time officer position, 

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but for some reason he was still
allowed to keep his special 

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constable role? 
As if the exact same concern 

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wouldn't apply to that as well. 
In fact, surely it would be even

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more worrying since he's 
literally doing volunteer work. 

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He's not getting paid for the 
hours that he is putting into 

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the special constable role. 
If someones going to be more 

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susceptible to financial 
bribery, it's going to be when 

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they're working for free. 
No obviously I'm not saying they

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should have given him the full 
time role instead. 

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More like he should have been 
encouraged to take another 

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career path entirely. 
The police force should never 

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have been a place for Wayne 
Cousins for way more reasons 

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than just his finances. 
Of course you will see very 

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soon, but he did end up getting 
a job in the Civil Nuclear 

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Constabulary, which is a special
police force unit specifically 

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protecting our nuclear sites and
the transportation of nuclear 

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materials. 
Somehow the vetting process for 

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this job missed the fact that 
Wayne was in major debt on or 

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maybe it didn't miss that fact. 
Maybe they knew when they hired 

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him anywhere. 
I wouldn't know. 

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I'm not accusing them of that, 
but I wouldn't know. 

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He worked there for many, many 
years until eventually he 

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applied for a full time role in 
the Metropolitan Police Force, 

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which serves and is supposed to 
protect the Greater London area.

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I'd say that working for the Met
Police is kind of the dream for 

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an aspiring police officer in 
the South to work for the main 

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police force in the capital city
of our country. 

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And in 2018, a 45 year old Wayne
applied and got the job. 

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Not only had the vetting process
missed his troubling debt once 

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again, but in the time since the
last vetting, Wayne had gotten 

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up to some even worse shit. 
This time the vetting process 

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had somehow missed the fact that
this man had been reported for 

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indecent exposure. 
And that's an awful enough crime

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in itself. 
But the person that Wayne was 

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allegedly exposing his naked 
body to in public was a child. 

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This had been reported in 2015, 
three years before he was given 

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the Met Police job. 
The victim's parents had 

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reported his vehicle and it was 
traced back to Wayne Cousins. 

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They had his name, they had him.
But frustratingly, he was never 

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charged with anything, and I 
firmly believe that to be down 

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to police incompetence. 
An appointment had been 

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scheduled with the victim's 
family to get more information, 

458
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:48,200
but the officer assigned failed 
to show up and even then failed 

459
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,400
to follow up and schedule 
another appointment. 

460
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,400
So there was no interview, there
was no arrest, nothing. 

461
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,400
Police had Wayne's name, they 
had his address, and they knew 

462
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,840
that he was an active Civil 
Nuclear Constabulary officer. 

463
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,440
And I wonder if that had 
anything to do with them failing

464
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,440
to follow up. 
His work was never informed that

465
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,400
this had been reported. 
Nothing was put on his file. 

466
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,080
And so three years later, when 
he applied to be a Met Police 

467
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,240
officer, they didn't seem to 
clock that they were inviting a 

468
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,640
sex pest into the force. 
And if they'd done any form of 

469
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,280
checks on his electronic 
devices, which should be part of

470
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,120
the vetting process if it's not 
already. 

471
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,960
If they would have checked, they
would have discovered that on a 

472
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,560
number of occasions he had sent 
unsolicited indecent images of 

473
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:40,160
himself to women online. 
He was a repeat perpetrator of 

474
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,400
sexual harassment. 
And on top of that, they would 

475
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,520
have found a huge collection of 
violent pornography on his 

476
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,520
devices. 
Wayne Cousins was into rape 

477
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,360
fantasies, sexual abuse, sexual 
violence. 

478
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,600
He had spoken to many, many 
people about this. 

479
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,360
He had shown other people the 
material that he was getting off

480
00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:06,200
to, including other police 
officers on the force. 

481
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,680
His colleagues knew that he was 
a twisted man that fantasized 

482
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,080
about sexual violence. 
The content that he was watching

483
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,200
was intended to be viewed as a 
crime taking place. 

484
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,200
Now we know that there is such a
thing as consensual non consent.

485
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:26,400
Some people enjoy with their 
partner in the privacy of their 

486
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,600
home, consensually acting out a 
scene of non consent, but it is 

487
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,280
all consensual. 
Do you get what I mean? 

488
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,440
It's acting and that is supposed
to be what a lot of the porn 

489
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,160
actors are engaging in. 
I mean, you would hope. 

490
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,640
Tragically that is not always 
the case. 

491
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,320
And that's a whole other awful 
tangent for another day. 

492
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,600
But assuming that the content 
that he was watching was 

493
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,800
consensually acted out, it's not
an actual crime taking place. 

494
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,400
But that's not the point, is it?
It's supposed to look and feel 

495
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,080
like a crime to the viewer who 
is getting off on it. 

496
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,240
And Wayne Cousins, his Co 
workers knew that he as a police

497
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,760
officer fantasized and got off 
to sexual crimes taking place. 

498
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,720
But no one ever raised any 
alarms. 

499
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,040
There were no notes on his 
record. 

500
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,880
His boys had his back I guess. 
For three years before he ever 

501
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,240
met Sarah Everard, this man had 
been a problem waiting to happen

502
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,960
and working for the Metropolitan
Police. 

503
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,080
And God did he love to show off 
the fact that he was a cop. 

504
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,360
By the way, he would tell anyone
and everyone that would listen 

505
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,440
while he was off duty. 
Maybe he's at the pub or 

506
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,520
whatever. 
He would tell strangers and 

507
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,840
acquaintances alike, despite it 
being wholly unnecessary and 

508
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,080
unrelated to any topic of 
conversation. 

509
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,680
He just loved that the phrase 
I'm a police officer carried a 

510
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,960
certain amount of power and 
intimidation. 

511
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,200
He'd even walk around while he 
was off duty and in normal 

512
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,400
clothes with all of his police. 
Geist still attached to his 

513
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,560
belt, handcuffs and what have 
you. 

514
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,480
Again, wholly unnecessary. 
Is that even allowed? 

515
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,200
Actually, I wouldn't know, but 
it feels like that shouldn't be 

516
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,840
allowed if he's off duty to be 
walking around with handcuffs 

517
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,560
attached to him and visibly 
displayed as well. 

518
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,720
But you see the kind of man that
this is, he wanted everyone to 

519
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,880
know that he had control and 
power over them, especially in a

520
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,600
physical sense. 
I mean, carrying restraints and 

521
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,520
displaying them openly while 
you're off duty, why else would 

522
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,480
you ever do that unless you 
wanted people to know that 

523
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,600
you're willing to use them? 
He didn't even need to say 

524
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,040
anything to be seen as 
threatening. 

525
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,240
In his first year with the Met 
Police, Wayne was a part of a 

526
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,160
Safer neighborhoods team in 
South London. 

527
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,920
And that's the kind of role 
that's there to give the 

528
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,560
community reassurance that they 
are protected, which is brutally

529
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,360
ironic in retrospect of this 
case. 

530
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,440
Then in 2020 he became a part of
the Parliamentary and Diplomatic

531
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,640
Protection Command. 
It's a high level position with 

532
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,120
a hell of a lot of 
responsibility. 

533
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,320
I mean he is literally guarding 
and protecting some of the most 

534
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,200
important people and important 
buildings in our country. 

535
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,160
Mother fucker was given firearms
for this position and he was 

536
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,960
usually stationed at the Palace 
of Westminster and the embassies

537
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,040
surrounding it. 
Then in 2020, when the pandemic 

538
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,640
hit, several existing officers 
were tasked with with COVID 

539
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,080
patrols. 
They would be out and about, 

540
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,280
making sure that people were 
sticking to the enforced curfew 

541
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,480
and the increasingly complicated
rules. 

542
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,680
And even though Wayne was 
working his way up in the police

543
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,480
force, a job that he had 
literally dreamed of, a job that

544
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,440
granted him all the power and 
all the control that he could 

545
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,560
ever want, he was still willing 
to risk that to gratify his 

546
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,280
depraved sexual desires. 
In February 2021, not even a 

547
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,080
week before he came into contact
with Sarah Everard, Wayne 

548
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,120
Cousins was still committing 
acts of indecent exposure. 

549
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,920
He drove up to a McDonald's 
drive through, and while he 

550
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,160
collected his order, he exposed 
himself to at least two of the 

551
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,760
women working there. 
In fact, there were multiple 

552
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,000
reports. 
I'm not sure if all of the women

553
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,520
saw him, but there were more 
than two reports about this 

554
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,280
incident. 
And this kind of thing like 

555
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:23,720
indecent exposure, forcing 
someone to see you naked, that 

556
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,360
kind of thing makes me feel so 
physically sick. 

557
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,400
These women are just trying to 
do their jobs and they're being 

558
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,920
sexually harassed and 
traumatized while their guard is

559
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:38,000
down and while they're expected 
to be polite and calm and normal

560
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,280
and he is forcing them into an 
interaction like this. 

561
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,680
Now, these women took his 
license plate down. 

562
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,760
They even got his bank card 
information from his order that 

563
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,560
he had just made, and it was all
reported to the police, but 

564
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,240
absolutely nothing was done 
about it. 

565
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,600
Police had his name, but when 
wasn't followed up on, he wasn't

566
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,200
given a warning, nothing was put
on his file for committing a 

567
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,160
crime like that. 
He should have lost his job, he 

568
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,000
should have been kicked off the 
whole police force and banned 

569
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,840
from ever being allowed to serve
or protect ever again. 

570
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,520
But that didn't happen. 
Indecent exposure is often 

571
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,400
dismissed as a low level and 
maybe less concerning offence, 

572
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,560
but criminologists warn that it 
can be a red flag for 

573
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,400
escalation. 
A leading homicide specialist 

574
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,120
and professor said flashing is 
an act of sexual aggression. 

575
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,400
If someone has flashing in their
past, I'd expect there to be 

576
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,240
problems in their future. 
It may lead to domestic abuse, 

577
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,200
coercive control, stalking or 
sexual violence. 

578
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,680
Research shows that over 4 
years, more than 200 people 

579
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,160
convicted of rape actually had 
prior indecent exposure charges,

580
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,640
and eight of which had even gone
on to commit murder. 

581
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,080
Wayne Cousins, from what we 
know, had allegedly committed 

582
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,000
indecent exposure and gotten 
away with it on at least two 

583
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,680
separate occasions, one of which
was towards a child. 

584
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,880
In fact, police now believed 
that he could well be 

585
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,280
responsible for at least eight 
separate counts of indecent 

586
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,160
exposure over the years, but it 
could be upwards of 17. 

587
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,720
This man was a ticking time bomb
and he was about to explode in 

588
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,680
just a few days after his last 
alleged offence, on the night 

589
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,760
where he saw Sarah Everard 
walking home in Clapham, six 

590
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,400
days after Sarah had vanished 
from the streets. 

591
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,960
It was the evening of March 9th 
2021. 

592
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,080
A full scale search and rescue 
operation had revealed 

593
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,760
practically nothing about her 
whereabouts or her current 

594
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,280
safety status. 
They didn't know if she was 

595
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,600
still alive and out there 
somewhere, or where she could be

596
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,400
if she was. 
All they knew right now was that

597
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,480
the last person she had been 
seen with was Wayne Cousins 

598
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,160
caught on various car cameras, 
and the last clip of them both 

599
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,800
even shows that the front door 
of his car was wide open, 

600
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,360
suggesting that Sarah had gotten
into the vehicle with this man. 

601
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,240
By this point, police had 
actually looked into Wayne and 

602
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,000
discovered that he was one of 
the top suspects in that 

603
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,159
indecent exposure case from the 
McDonald's just three days 

604
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:15,280
before Sarah went missing. 
If everything was adding up 

605
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,719
correctly, this meant that she 
had gotten into a car with a sex

606
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,159
offender. 
So immediately police go down to

607
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:26,120
his house and they make an 
arrest on suspicion of kidnap 

608
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,040
and on suspicion of indecent 
exposure from three days prior. 

609
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,440
On the day of his arrest, Wayne 
had just been at home doing 

610
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,440
nothing. 
He'd called off from work 

611
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,679
claiming that he was ill with 
stress, and now he's a suspect 

612
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,840
in the country's biggest current
case. 

613
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,360
The officer arresting him said 
that as soon as Wayne answered 

614
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,800
the door and saw that it was the
police, all the colour drained 

615
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,360
from his face. 
He went completely grey. 

616
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,760
He knew it was over. 
So we're here to talk to you 

617
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:05,720
about Sarah. 
Let me show you the picture. 

618
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:06,800
Do you know Sarah? 
I don't know. 

619
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,080
OK. 
Sarah went missing. 

620
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:17,680
I'll show you some which is of 
of her on the day Sarah went 

621
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,640
missing on Wednesday and her 
parents obviously and her family

622
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,760
are really worried about the 
inquiry that's been conducted so

623
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,080
far has let us speak to you 
about it and to see what we what

624
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:36,080
we know about Sarah. 
OK, So would you like to do you 

625
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,080
know where Sarah is, right? 
Do you know anything about what 

626
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:46,120
happens or not? 
I know that she went missing up 

627
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:53,000
in London somewhere about a week
ago, so just from what I've got 

628
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,320
on the news. 
OK, have you had a person now? 

629
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,480
No, not personal man you had. 
Any interactions with? 

630
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,320
Her at all? 
Why, why, Why do I have personal

631
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:09,200
interactions with her? 
It's very difficult because I 

632
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,000
can't go into a lot of the 
evidence because obviously that 

633
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,080
would require. 
That's not part of what an 

634
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,200
urgent interviewer is. 
OK? 

635
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,600
This interview is just about 
trying to find her because she's

636
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,560
been missing for a while. 
Now I'm sat in handcuffs and I 

637
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,400
know her, so you must have 
something to say that I know 

638
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,480
her. 
Well, I said you've been 

639
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,600
arrested on suspicion of kidnap 
and we believe that you've been 

640
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,960
involved in her disappearance 
and taking her away from her 

641
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,520
family. 
OK. 

642
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,480
So we are trying to find her. 
See, everybody is very worried 

643
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,640
about that. 
She's got, you know, parents, 

644
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,360
she's got she's got a 
girlfriend. 

645
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,800
There's a lot of people that 
care about that. 

646
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,480
Sure. 
If you've seen how the news, the

647
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:54,360
people that are reaching out out
her, they're looking for every 

648
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:59,080
day and she's missing. 
And our job, our primary job is 

649
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,560
to find a strong finding that 
safely. 

650
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:07,640
Well, OK, we believe it. 
You know something about where 

651
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,080
she is and that's why we're here
to look for her. 

652
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,520
Let's try and find her and 
that's why we're talking to you 

653
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,680
now. 
I'm just trying to get you to 

654
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,880
have a good think about it. 
After initially telling police 

655
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,160
officers that he had never met 
Sarah and has absolutely nothing

656
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,080
to do with her disappearance, 
Wayne Cousins rather quickly 

657
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,080
changes his story. 
He tells police that he's in a 

658
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,520
lot of debt and has recently 
been in contact with a gang who 

659
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,440
I presume had promised him money
in exchange for carrying out 

660
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,000
their dirty work for them. 
OK. 

661
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:51,960
Well I am in financial shift and
I've been leant on by. 

662
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:57,720
I don't know who they are, 
they're a group, A gang, 

663
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:05,800
whatever and they told me why I 
need to go and pick up girls and

664
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,480
get them to them. 
So it then came through that 

665
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:16,080
they have been harmed, my family
take them away and they'll use 

666
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,880
them instead. 
At that point, I had no option 

667
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:25,880
to try and find somebody. 
So all right, then there's just 

668
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,080
a couple of names. 
I was told a place to take her. 

669
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,200
That's it. 
That's all. 

670
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,840
That is all I know. 
He threatened to take my family 

671
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:35,480
away from her. 
You. 

672
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,000
Must know more about where she 
is or how I can find her. 

673
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,320
I'm sure I don't know. 
I know you know, and you I. 

674
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,120
Don't know if that's taken in 
the sand then they've taken her.

675
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,280
I don't know at. 
Some point you're going to end 

676
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,480
up looking to his family and 
wise, your family are going to 

677
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,000
be there. 
Oh no, you've got an opportunity

678
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,840
here right now to help us find 
Zara and bring her back home to 

679
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:03,720
her. 
Final I can't. 

680
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,640
I don't know where she is. 
I hunt hand on heart. 

681
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,520
I don't know where she. 
Is you need. 

682
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:10,240
To help. 
Us. 

683
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,000
I just need to know where she 
is. 

684
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,200
If I could tell you why there 
must be something, If I honestly

685
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,440
could tell you anything else, 
then you have it right now. 

686
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,720
Without explicitly saying it, 
Wayne Cousins just implied to 

687
00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:29,280
the police that he had kidnapped
Sarah Everard in order to 

688
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,440
appease this gang who would 
threaten to come back for his 

689
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,560
family if he didn't follow their
orders. 

690
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,680
It was a tall tale and I'm sure 
police had their doubts about 

691
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,800
its validity right there in that
moment. 

692
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,160
But regardless, they let him 
continue trying to explain 

693
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,120
himself and describe the 
situation that he was caught up 

694
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,240
in. 
He says that he was given the 

695
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,240
name of a place to take her and 
so he did. 

696
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,120
And then he's saying, but that's
all I know. 

697
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,880
That's that's all I can tell you
already. 

698
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,160
It's suspicious just how little 
detail he can give about the 

699
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,600
gang or about the day that he 
actually carried this out. 

700
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,160
If you had actually been ordered
to human traffic, a poor 

701
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,800
innocent woman off the street, 
surely you would sound a little 

702
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,920
bit more shaken up than Wayne 
Cousin sounds in these clips 

703
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,960
tell. 
Me about it, I need to find it. 

704
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,600
Tell me everything now, OK? 
There was a white sprinter van. 

705
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:29,760
They are was between sort of 
Lennon Mainstone area that I've 

706
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,800
got to off. 
I still don't know. 

707
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:39,960
I, I don't know, they, they 
just, I just parked my car up 

708
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,120
and then the van came up behind 
me, flashed me and they all 

709
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,200
jumped out. 
And then they, they took this 

710
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:53,920
girl. 
They said, they said you've done

711
00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:00,680
good. 
And I don't know whether my 

712
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,080
family's going to be or what 
still, but they, they 

713
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,400
threatened, they threatened to 
take my family away from me. 

714
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,440
So at that point. 
I'm doing what I can to. 

715
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:15,120
My family, he recounts the. 
Very moment that the men came to

716
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,840
collect Sarah from him. 
But weirdly, he doesn't seem to 

717
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,680
say anything about Sarah 
herself. 

718
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,960
There's nothing about how she 
reacted at all. 

719
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,680
He doesn't mention anything that
she said or did not to mention. 

720
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,160
He doesn't explain how he got 
her in his car in the 1st place,

721
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,880
what he said to her to make her 
get in, or where she thought she

722
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,480
was going with him. 
So many large portions of his 

723
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,760
story and major details are 
missing. 

724
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,960
But then he tells police he can 
vaguely remember where he 

725
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,080
dropped Sarah off if they want 
to know. 

726
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,640
So all I know is it was a. 
Roundabout, we could drive there

727
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,400
now, I could show you, but I, I 
roughly, I don't know Lenham 

728
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,040
Maidstone area at all. 
I did it on. 

729
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:03,240
Google, if we did it on Google 
map, it'd like right I drove. 

730
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:08,840
From Ashford to Maidstone 
there's a roundabout that breaks

731
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,120
up, I guess. 
So this is the first big 

732
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:18,120
roundabout, the carriage 
straight over to Maidstone. 

733
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:23,040
But instead I went round that 
roundabout and back up another 

734
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,760
road and at that point that was 
flashed and pulled over. 

735
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:33,760
You guys got out, opened my 
door, opened that door, pushed 

736
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,600
me out against the front of the 
car, took the girl. 

737
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,440
Trade off, that's it, they said.
We'll be in. 

738
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,760
Touch. 
So I'm here, I'm off work with 

739
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,080
stress because I'm here to 
protect my family. 

740
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,160
I want to be here 24/7 from my 
family. 

741
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:55,120
They come from my family. 
I've got nothing myself, if 

742
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,240
Wayne Cousins is telling. 
The truth about this human 

743
00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:00,960
trafficking gang that are 
pulling people in to kidnap 

744
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,520
women off the streets for them. 
Then police need to get 

745
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,080
investigating this right away. 
They make it clear to him just 

746
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,080
how serious this is. 
They ask how the gang had even 

747
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,440
gotten in touch with him in the 
1st place and Wayne says that he

748
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,800
had been with one of their call 
girls. 

749
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,880
I'm assuming that he's saying 
that he had solicited the 

750
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,400
services of a sex worker that 
was connected to this gang, but 

751
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,880
he says that he tried to fuck 
her over and RIP her off. 

752
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,440
This fucking horrid man just 
keeps getting worse. 

753
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,240
Imagine trying to scam a sex 
worker that has already given 

754
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,600
you her services. 
If this story is even real, you 

755
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,960
know what I'm saying? 
But Wayne says that she must 

756
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,480
have told the gang that he tried
to fuck her over and they then 

757
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,280
tracked him down and began 
threatening him to do their 

758
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,920
dirty work or they would come 
for his family and either kidnap

759
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,040
or kill them. 
So the officers are like, OK, so

760
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,360
how did the gang contact you? 
How do you communicate with each

761
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:56,880
other? 
You know, kind of asking, do you

762
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,560
have a phone number for these 
people? 

763
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,560
They just tell me being here. 
Being here so hotel bursts 

764
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:04,880
through gang pledge through 
could be here. 

765
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,760
OK, so I turned up. 
I've got I've got no mobile 

766
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,920
number and they have got my 
mobile number. 

767
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,760
They're obviously outside 
watching, following. 

768
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,280
Just honestly, how are they 
telling you to be there and be 

769
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:20,680
there? 
How? 

770
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,240
Is it that be in those 
directions? 

771
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,920
Yeah, They'll, they'll, they'll 
come. 

772
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,920
Outside. 
So they'll be outside here. 

773
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,600
And then they'll say, well, 
you're going to be in. 

774
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:33,480
At this time or you're going to 
be in Ashford at this time, I 

775
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,480
said there's no links, no 
telephone numbers. 

776
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:40,200
I'm completely on my own. 
But at the same time being 

777
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,520
threatened, he insists that he 
has. 

778
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,520
No way of contacting the gang 
and all of their communications 

779
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,880
are done in person, which is 
awfully convenient, isn't it? 

780
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,960
Almost as convenient as how much
his story changed in the space 

781
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
of less than 5 minutes. 
That questioning that we broke 

782
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,240
down and showed clips of was no 
longer than 7 minutes in total. 

783
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,920
But remember, at the very 
beginning he was quite insistent

784
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,920
that he didn't know Sarah. 
He was saying things like, why 

785
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,040
would I have personal 
interactions with her? 

786
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,200
He was insisting that he had 
only ever seen her on the news. 

787
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,040
And then all of a sudden, he 
admitted that he had kidnapped 

788
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,880
her and handed her off to a 
gang. 

789
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,480
The police weren't buying his 
story about this human 

790
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,280
trafficking gang, and they 
continued to look into Wayne 

791
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,280
Cousins as a suspect. 
They pulled up absolutely 

792
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,440
everything that they could about
him, and they quickly learned 

793
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,840
that he owned a plot of land 
about an hour away in Ashford, 

794
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,400
Kent. 
That's never a good sign when 

795
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,680
they're investigating someone 
connected to a missing person. 

796
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,160
And it's not exactly clear why 
he owned this plot of land in a 

797
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,400
wooded area. 
He'd bought it two years prior 

798
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,440
in 2019. 
But of course, it was of 

799
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,120
immediate importance for the 
police to search this plot of 

800
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,840
land, especially when they 
checked his phone records and 

801
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,600
they found that his cell signal 
had pinged in that area of this 

802
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,680
random plot of land multiple 
times since Sarah's 

803
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,600
disappearance. 
So the very next day after his 

804
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,520
arrest, it was March 10th, when 
police search teams arrived and 

805
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,560
began combing through every nook
and cranny of that plot of land.

806
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,320
They spared no expenses, too. 
There were sniffer dogs. 

807
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,640
There was a police helicopter 
overhead. 

808
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,000
There were diving teams 
searching the pond close by. 

809
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,440
And it was in there, in that 
body of water that they 

810
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,400
recovered the dead body of Sarah
Everard. 

811
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:40,320
Her remains had been burned 
beyond recognition, and so her 

812
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,960
dental records had to be used to
identify her. 

813
00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:48,240
Two days later it was confirmed 
and the search for Sarah Everard

814
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:53,920
came to a tragic and abrupt end.
In the days, weeks and even 

815
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,240
months following the 
announcement that the search for

816
00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:00,720
Sarah was over, the whole entire
nation seemed to go into 

817
00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:03,120
mourning. 
The City of London especially. 

818
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,720
I remember it so clearly. 
Clapham Common had become a 

819
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,920
place of grieving and 
remembering Sarah, with it being

820
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,880
one of the last places she ever 
walked. 

821
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,960
It became a place for candlelit 
vigils and protests, for women 

822
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,840
to come and cry together, to 
remember Sarah and reflect on 

823
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,760
what had happened. 
And through it all, there was an

824
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,720
overwhelming sense of fear and 
unease. 

825
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:34,040
One of our women had been taken 
from the street, driven over 80 

826
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,920
miles away. 
She had been brutally murdered 

827
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,800
and burned, her body disposed of
in a pond. 

828
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,920
Like she wasn't someone's child,
someone's best friend, the love 

829
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,640
of someone's life. 
Like she wasn't a human being 

830
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,000
with the right to life. 
Members of the royal family even

831
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,400
went down to Clapham Common to 
pay their respects, to leave 

832
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,120
bunches of flowers and speak 
with these protesting, mourning 

833
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,560
women. 
Both the Mayor of London and the

834
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,280
UK's Prime Minister at the time 
released statements 

835
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,920
acknowledging the immense pain 
her family were in and the 

836
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,360
urgency that they're now had to 
solve this crime and to keep the

837
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,240
streets safe for other women. 
And once the news broke that the

838
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:20,400
man responsible for this 
horrific kidnap and murder was a

839
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:25,280
police officer, well, it only 
made all that anger and fear 

840
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,280
even sharper. 
One of the very people who 

841
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,880
trained to protect us had done 
this to one of us. 

842
00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,840
He knew that any random woman on
the street would trust him and 

843
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,400
would do what he said. 
And he played on that trust to 

844
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:45,080
kidnap, rape and murder Sarah. 
Now, of course, trust in police 

845
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,280
has never been a universal 
thing, especially among 

846
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,280
marginalized communities, and 
especially in countries where 

847
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,360
corruption within law 
enforcement is even more visible

848
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,040
than here in the UK. 
But the Metropolitan Police, 

849
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,520
police in London are meant to 
represent safety. 

850
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,160
They're meant to be the people 
that you would run to in a state

851
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,760
of emergency when you need help 
and protection. 

852
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,760
And for so many people in the 
UK, especially for women, 

853
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,520
Sarah's case completely 
shattered that illusion. 

854
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,720
We are not safe. 
There was immense pressure on 

855
00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:20,320
the police to reassure the 
public in the aftermath that 

856
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,000
they, as an institution, they 
were taking safety concerns 

857
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,600
seriously. 
Women were rightly saying that 

858
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,960
if they were now approached by a
police officer they would be 

859
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,240
scared, they wouldn't have trust
in him. 

860
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,800
And so different police officers
and officials were making very 

861
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:40,240
ham handed statements across the
media, including this one prick 

862
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,360
called Philip Allert. 
He was a crime commissioner in 

863
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,560
North Yorkshire at the time and 
got the disappointment that I 

864
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,880
felt when I heard that this was 
a fellow Yorkshireman. 

865
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,960
He went on the BBC News in 
October, so a month after 

866
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,240
Sarah's murder, and he said that
women need to be more 

867
00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:00,480
streetwise, they need to know 
their rights, they need to know 

868
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,440
when they can and can't be 
arrested. 

869
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,280
He said that Sarah never should 
have submitted to the fake 

870
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:10,000
arrest by weighing cousins. 
Women, first of all, just need 

871
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000
to. 
Be streetwise about when they 

872
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,520
can be arrested, when they can't
be arrested genuinely the most. 

873
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:20,320
Disgusting misogynistic victim 
blaming I've heard in a while. 

874
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,240
I actually can't even talk about
that for much longer because I 

875
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,240
can feel myself getting like hot
and angry. 

876
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:26,880
You guys don't need me to sit 
here. 

877
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,720
And we feel back every layer of 
how disgusting that is, 

878
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,000
especially given the fact that 
we are raised and taught as a 

879
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,040
society to blindly trust the 
police. 

880
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,160
The promise that we are supposed
to have from them is that they 

881
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,240
are right and you listen to 
them. 

882
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:45,840
So to imply that Sarah did the 
wrong thing by going with him 

883
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,000
when he handcuffed her is just 
so out of the realm of 

884
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,120
understanding. 
It's just the worst take I've 

885
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,240
ever heard anyone have, never 
mind another police officer. 

886
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,200
Of course, Philip Allot resigned
after the backlash over those 

887
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,080
comments. 
Over 100 of his colleagues 

888
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,640
actually signed an open letter 
getting him to resign. 

889
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,040
No one wants a man that thinks 
like that to be in a position of

890
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,680
power. 
And then of course, there was 

891
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,400
the official advice that was 
given to women who were now 

892
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,680
terrified at the thought of 
being approached by a police 

893
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,680
officer. 
Police said that if you had 

894
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,600
doubts or concerns about the 
validity of an interaction that 

895
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,160
you had, then you could do one 
of the following things. 

896
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,200
Now hold on to your chairs 
because so much of this is so 

897
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,560
stupid. 
It's actually like laughable. 

898
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:33,840
We'll start with the milder 
ones. 

899
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:39,320
They said that you could call 
999 in front of the police 

900
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,640
officer that is trying to arrest
you. 

901
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:47,080
OK, Or you could ask the police 
officer to radio back to 

902
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,160
headquarters so that you could 
speak to someone on his 

903
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:54,680
walkie-talkie to verify him. 
Or, now this is where it gets 

904
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,920
insane. 
You could flag down a passerby, 

905
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:02,160
you know, just yell to someone, 
hey, I'm getting arrested, and 

906
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,440
have them to come over to 
witness the situation. 

907
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,600
What? 
Or they said that you could flag

908
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:13,080
down a car or a taxi or a bus to
come and witness the 

909
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,000
interaction. 
Or failing all of that and this 

910
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,800
is the craziest 1 yet, you could
just run off into the nearest 

911
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,800
house. 
Genuinely that was the advice 

912
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,880
that they gave women. 
If you felt unsafe with a lone 

913
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,840
police officer, you should run 
away and close yourself in a 

914
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,360
strangers house while you call 
for further help. 

915
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,120
Now, surely that's actually 
grounds for resisting arrest? 

916
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,840
Surely that police officer would
chase you down. 

917
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,200
Surely you would get into 
trouble for running away from an

918
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,360
interaction. 
And you know, as laughable as 

919
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,880
all of this advice is, it's 
actually really not funny at all

920
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,520
because the burden was put onto 
women to keep themselves safe 

921
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,000
through the most ridiculous 
means possible in order to just 

922
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,440
stay safe from male violence. 
It's just, it's batshit insane 

923
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,520
when you zoom out and you really
take in the concept that this 

924
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,480
advice is being issued to women 
to protect themselves from 

925
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,880
police officers. 
Like what the fuck is going on? 

926
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,320
In the aftermath of Sarah's 
murder, everyone was terrified 

927
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,800
and enraged and they needed 
something. 

928
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,240
They needed a movement, and with
that, Reclaim These Streets was 

929
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,360
formed. 
They organized vigils and 

930
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,360
protests to challenge the 
narrative that women should just

931
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,440
be more careful, be more 
streetwise. 

932
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,920
They shouldn't submit. 
Instead, the movement demanded 

933
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,160
better protection and 
accountability. 

934
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,240
But when these women tried to 
meet up in Clapham Common to 

935
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:40,000
show just how horrified and 
angry they were, the Met Police 

936
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,800
made everything as difficult as 
they possibly could. 

937
00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:47,000
Officers were literally seen 
getting physical with the women,

938
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,040
restraining them and shoving 
them down to the floor, which 

939
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,640
led to even more outrage. 
Given the context of these 

940
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,080
protests, Sarah had been 
murdered by a police officer 

941
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,600
using his powerful position over
her. 

942
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,680
And I think all of This is why 
Sarah's case became so much 

943
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,800
bigger than one horrific crime. 
Because for a lot of people, 

944
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:12,560
especially women, it tapped into
years of fear, frustration and 

945
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,440
anger that had been building 
long before March 2021. 

946
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,960
The danger we face just as women
going about our lives is always 

947
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,240
apparent to us. 
We know not to play music too 

948
00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:26,760
loud in our headphones while 
we're walking alone so that we 

949
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,920
can stay alert to anyone 
approaching us. 

950
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,320
We frequently look over our 
shoulder to check who's around. 

951
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,600
We do an instinctual threat 
analysis on any man we see. 

952
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,600
It's sad, but we've been scared 
into living this way. 

953
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,120
And for many women that fear 
even once they walk through 

954
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,040
their front door, a place that 
should feel safe could actually 

955
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:53,120
hold the biggest threat to them 
in the form of domestic violence

956
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,200
or domestic abuse in general. 
And that's why I want to take a 

957
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,840
moment to platform a crucial UK 
charity named Solace, who for 

958
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:04,160
over 50 years now have been 
supporting women and children in

959
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,480
London escaping violence and 
abuse. 

960
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,520
And it's not only domestic abuse
survivors that they help, it's 

961
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,800
those facing gender based 
violence, victims of human 

962
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,560
trafficking or rape 
exploitation. 

963
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:19,720
Solace helps so many people, 
mainly women and children, to 

964
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:23,200
escape and then to heal. 
On their website you can find so

965
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,920
many different forms of support,
from emergency accommodation to 

966
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,800
therapy to a dedicated number to
call just for advice. 

967
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,240
And if you need to communicate 
in a different language, they 

968
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:36,000
can offer face to face support 
in that language. 

969
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,080
All you have to do is ask. 
If you're in London, please do 

970
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,560
take a look at their website and
familiarize yourself. 

971
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,560
If not for yourself, then maybe 
for a friend or someone that you

972
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,240
haven't met yet. 
You never know when you might 

973
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:51,600
need their services or when you 
might need to tell someone about

974
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,000
their services. 
So the link to their website 

975
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,160
will be in today's description, 
along with our usual link tree 

976
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,640
full of even more resources if 
you need them. 

977
00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:03,640
And for anyone who does need 
solace, you have my full support

978
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,440
in doing that. 
Please do look after yourself. 

979
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:12,040
You deserve to live a healthy, 
happy, peaceful life away from 

980
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,760
whatever dangerous situation you
might find yourself in. 

981
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,800
I believe in you, Outlaw 
believes in you. 

982
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,920
And now let's pick back up with 
today's case. 

983
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,520
Now that police have recovered 
Sarah's body and identified her 

984
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,200
killer, they need to fill in the
gaps of what actually happened 

985
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:32,040
on that night, March 3rd, 2021. 
So by this point in the 

986
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,640
investigation, police had begun 
gathering Intel and evidence 

987
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:38,720
surrounding Wayne Cousins. 
They wanted to piece together 

988
00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:41,720
his movements in the lead up to 
the murder so that they could 

989
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:45,480
try to figure out how he he had 
crossed paths with Sarah Everard

990
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:47,840
and why he had done what he'd 
done. 

991
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,880
Well, they already knew that he 
had specifically hired a car to 

992
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,800
carry out this attack in, so 
there's an immediate level of 

993
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,600
premeditation. 
But they had no idea at this 

994
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,320
point just how far back that 
premeditation went. 

995
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,640
On February 10th, almost one 
whole month before Sarah's 

996
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,280
murder, Wayne Cousins had gone 
on Amazon and purchased a 

997
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:14,080
standard issue police handcuff 
key for £2.50, clearly intended 

998
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,520
for personal use since it didn't
go through his work. 

999
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,920
Why would he need a spare 
handcuff key? 

1000
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,560
And on top of that, in the two 
months before the murder, so 

1001
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,240
this is as far back as January, 
Cousins was found to have driven

1002
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:32,160
the 80 mile journey from Kent to
London for no real reason on at 

1003
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:36,600
least three different occasions.
The police believe that this was

1004
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:40,760
him scoping out the areas 
looking for some quiet, darker 

1005
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,680
roads where he might be able to 
one day strike. 

1006
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,640
And in the meantime, while he 
was driving those roads, he's 

1007
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,960
probably just fantasizing and 
and trying to get some sort of 

1008
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,960
high from driving the roads that
he would one day take when he 

1009
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,280
did murder someone. 
Clearly, he had decided on March

1010
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:03,160
3rd or even sooner that the time
had come he was ready to act on 

1011
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,120
his urges and attack a 
vulnerable woman. 

1012
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:10,080
Cousins waited until a day that 
he had off from work, but he 

1013
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,920
told his wife that he was 
working that day so that she 

1014
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,600
wouldn't worry or get suspicious
when he didn't return home. 

1015
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,000
In fact, he'd even written on 
their family calendar that he 

1016
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,280
was going to be working overtime
that day. 

1017
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,880
Even more coverage buying, even 
more time where people won't 

1018
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,160
wonder where he is. 
Around 4:45 PM that day, he goes

1019
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,960
to a rental car place in Dover 
and hires a white Vauxhall 

1020
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,760
Astra, which he drove all the 
way up to London. 

1021
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,200
Around 8:00 PM, he's already in 
London. 

1022
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,960
He parks up in a Tesco car park 
in Kensington and he goes into 

1023
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:48,040
the shop and buys just one 
thing, a pack of 14 elastic hair

1024
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,280
ties. 
Now the possible use that Wayne 

1025
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,280
had for these hair bands has 
been debated. 

1026
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,160
Clearly it was a very 
significant purchase, to the 

1027
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,640
point where he paused his 
journey to go to a shop solely 

1028
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,280
to buy hair bands. 
Some people think they could 

1029
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:06,080
have been used to restrain 
Sarah, but it's also been argued

1030
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:09,000
that they could have had a 
sexual purpose as well. 

1031
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,960
Hair bands are sometimes known 
to be used as an alternative to 

1032
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,800
a cock ring, which is a tight 
band worn at the base of the 

1033
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:23,000
penis to trap blood inside in 
order to stay erect for longer 

1034
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:27,800
and delay ejaculation. 
And he had purchased these ahead

1035
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:32,160
of going out in his pre hired 
car to find an unsuspecting 

1036
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,280
woman to kidnap, rape and 
murder. 

1037
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,040
It's sickening to think that he 
might have made this purchase in

1038
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:41,240
order to prolong that sexual 
attack on his victim. 

1039
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:44,440
Alongside the hair bands, Wayne 
had already been putting 

1040
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,440
together what has been referred 
to as his kill kit, which 

1041
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,800
included plastic stick sheeting 
and carpet protector film. 

1042
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,160
So he's clearly not just 
planning to kidnap and rape a 

1043
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,240
woman and then let her go, is 
he? 

1044
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,920
Those purchases he made in 
advance show his intentions loud

1045
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,520
and clear. 
He wanted to murder a woman. 

1046
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,360
He knew that there might be a 
mess. 

1047
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,640
He wanted to cover his tracks. 
It's genuinely spine chilling to

1048
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,360
think how much he prepared, how 
much he thought about each 

1049
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:17,120
element as a police officer as 
well, he probably knew ways in 

1050
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,640
which he could be caught out and
adapted his methods accordingly.

1051
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,200
It gets to a point where it's 
like, are we sure that the 

1052
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,240
murder of Sarah Everard was the 
very first time that this man 

1053
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,000
had ever killed anyone? 
I mean, there's no current 

1054
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,600
evidence to say that Wayne 
Cousins had murdered anyone else

1055
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,800
before. 
But at least in my opinion, the 

1056
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:39,680
way that he went about this 
seems really advanced, almost 

1057
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:43,360
like he was practised or 
experienced in some way. 

1058
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,720
He clearly knows a lot and I 
don't want to get lost in 

1059
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,600
speculation though, so let's 
just talk about what we do know.

1060
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:53,600
Wayne was prepped. 
He had got all of his equipment 

1061
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:57,800
ready and within the hours after
buying those hair bands, Wayne 

1062
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,520
was putting his plan into 
action. 

1063
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:04,040
He was driving around South 
London just hunting for a woman,

1064
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:08,000
any woman that was alone and 
looked vulnerable enough for him

1065
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:12,480
to approach and manipulate, And 
it was around 9:30 PM that he 

1066
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,400
spotted Sarah Everard walking 
down Poinders Rd. 

1067
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,440
She was just halfway through her
walk home. 

1068
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:22,080
Cousins pulled his car over, 
turned on his hazard lights, and

1069
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:25,440
got out to go and speak to her. 
At the time, he was wearing 

1070
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,080
handcuffs attached to his belt, 
and when he spoke with Sarah, he

1071
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:32,560
flashed his warrant card, 
immediately establishing his 

1072
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:36,360
power over her, immediately 
intimidating her, manipulating 

1073
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,400
her, and making it clear that he
was someone that she was 

1074
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,440
expected to obey. 
Wayne proceeded to question 

1075
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,480
Sarah about where she had been 
that night. 

1076
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:48,080
Remember, the Super confusing 
Covad rules at the time were 

1077
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,080
that you had to have a 
reasonable excuse to be out and 

1078
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:55,320
about, and he proceeded to lie 
to her and tell her that she was

1079
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,520
in breach of Covad regulations. 
He told her that she was 

1080
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,920
breaking the law and that he 
needed to arrest her for this. 

1081
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,600
The rules were truly so messy at
the time that Sarah could have 

1082
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,160
easily been convinced that she 
was in the wrong. 

1083
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,320
Even if she wasn't, Cousins 
would have been able to play on 

1084
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:16,280
some specific wording or a new 
rule that she might have only 

1085
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,440
vaguely heard about in order to 
make her believe that she was 

1086
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,240
actually committing a crime. 
And if a police officer who was 

1087
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:27,200
shown you his warrant card says 
that you're breaking the law, I 

1088
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,280
think most people would actually
believe them, even if you think 

1089
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,040
that you're in the right. 
I mean, at least prior to this 

1090
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,960
case, I myself would likely have
gone with him too, because we 

1091
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:40,440
are taught to trust the police, 
trust that they know the rules 

1092
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:44,880
even better than us, trust that 
they are acting in good faith. 

1093
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,400
Even just walking past the 
police in the street can make 

1094
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:49,240
you feel like you've done 
something wrong, even when you 

1095
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,800
know full well that you haven't.
I think it's quite a natural 

1096
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:55,680
response to fawn when faced with
that level of authority. 

1097
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,200
And so it doesn't. 
It seemed like Sarah put up a 

1098
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,640
huge fight when Wayne Cousins 
proceeded to take the cuffs off 

1099
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:03,800
his belt and restrain her in 
them. 

1100
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:07,920
Which realistically, if this had
been a genuine arrest on the 

1101
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,040
grounds of violating the COVID 
regulations, then handcuffs 

1102
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:14,320
wouldn't be at all necessary. 
Police don't use them a lot of 

1103
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,360
the time when they're making a 
relatively calm arrest like 

1104
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,840
this. 
But the reason we know that 

1105
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:23,000
Sarah was handcuffed by Wayne 
before he led her into the car 

1106
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,000
is actually due to a witness 
that had driven by this 

1107
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,160
interaction taking place. 
This woman in her car didn't 

1108
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,800
think too much of it at the 
time. 

1109
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,360
She just saw a woman on the side
of the road being handcuffed by 

1110
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,760
a plainclothes officer. 
And she remembered actually 

1111
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,000
remarking to her partner that 
she thought that that was quite 

1112
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,400
unusual because police don't 
tend to handcuff women very 

1113
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,600
often. 
She just assumed that it was 

1114
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,560
some sort of undercover 
operation. 

1115
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,080
Little did she know she was 
actually witnessing the 

1116
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:55,120
abduction of Sarah Everard. 
And now that Sarah was 

1117
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:59,800
restrained, Cousins LED Sarah 
into his hire car and drove her 

1118
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:03,120
away, presumably under the 
pretence that he was taking her 

1119
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:07,280
to the police station. 
But in actuality, he began the 

1120
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:13,400
75 mile journey down to Dover, 
almost two hours away in a car. 

1121
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,840
And we don't know at what point 
during that journey Sarah 

1122
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:18,600
realized that something wasn't 
right. 

1123
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,520
But after a certain amount of 
time, you'd be wondering why 

1124
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,480
it's taking so long to get to 
the station, why he's taking 

1125
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,640
motorways and not turning off. 
Of course, we don't know if 

1126
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,040
there was any level of 
communication going on in the 

1127
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:36,040
car between Wayne and Sarah. 
Maybe she realized very early on

1128
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,720
that this man wasn't genuine and
this hadn't been a legitimate 

1129
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,920
arrest. 
But this is one part of the case

1130
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,120
that I always think about, even 
now years out. 

1131
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:50,520
How scared she must have been on
that car journey after having 

1132
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:53,720
worked out that they weren't 
going to the police station and 

1133
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:56,680
no one knew where she was or who
she was with. 

1134
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:01,240
She had no idea where this man 
was taking her and why. 

1135
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:05,520
He drove her to a secluded Rd. 
in Dover where he asked her to 

1136
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,360
get out of the car and 
transferred her into his own 

1137
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,760
vehicle, Now the family car that
he takes his wife and kids 

1138
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,000
everywhere in. 
He parked it on a quiet Rd. away

1139
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,240
from residential areas ahead of 
time. 

1140
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,680
Another piece that he had put 
into place well in advance 

1141
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:23,240
knowing that he was going to do 
this. 

1142
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,840
By that point, Sarah must have 
known exactly where this was 

1143
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,160
going. 
There would never be any 

1144
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,160
legitimate reason for a police 
officer to make you get into a 

1145
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:35,400
different vehicle to continue 
the journey, especially when 

1146
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,440
that vehicle is parked in the 
middle of nowhere. 

1147
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,840
It's not a marked car, but 
Cousins was covering his tracks,

1148
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,760
making sure that one vehicle 
couldn't be traced all the way 

1149
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,600
to the end destination. 
And by now it was reaching 

1150
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,360
midnight. 
Sarah had first been approached 

1151
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:56,080
by this police officer at 9:30 
PM, so now she had been with him

1152
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:01,760
for 2 1/2 hours, and finally he 
drives her to a rural area just 

1153
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:05,080
north of Dover, where it's 
believed that he carried out her

1154
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,400
rape and murder in the back seat
of his car. 

1155
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:13,000
It's unclear just how long the 
attack lasted for, but it ended 

1156
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:17,720
with him strangling her to death
with his police belt. 

1157
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,880
He would have had to apply 
pressure to her neck with that 

1158
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:25,280
belt for at least two full 
minutes straight before she 

1159
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:30,000
passed out or died. 
Two whole minutes where Sarah 

1160
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:34,920
struggled and knew that she was 
about to die out in the middle 

1161
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,480
of nowhere at the hands of this 
stranger. 

1162
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:42,240
Sarah was 33 years old when her 
life was stolen from her in the 

1163
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:46,840
most horrifying way imaginable. 
And not only did he take her 

1164
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:51,440
life, he put her through what I 
can only imagine to be the worst

1165
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,160
fear and trauma imaginable for 
hours beforehand. 

1166
01:06:56,880 --> 01:07:00,280
And now her family are left to 
carry on life without her. 

1167
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:04,680
So abruptly she was gone and 
never coming back. 

1168
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:09,360
And the thought of her last 
hours on this earth replay in so

1169
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,960
many people's minds, even now, 
years out, including mine. 

1170
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:17,480
Wayne Cousins is a monster of 
epic proportions. 

1171
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:22,280
He had a burning desire to harm 
and murder a vulnerable woman 

1172
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:24,720
that night. 
And what's worse, this man had 

1173
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,800
been reported and identified 
relation to an indecent exposure

1174
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,400
case just a few days prior that 
the police failed to follow up 

1175
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:34,280
on. 
Had they done so properly, 

1176
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,800
Cousins would have probably lost
his job, therefore he would have

1177
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,360
lost his warrant card, he 
wouldn't have had his handcuffs,

1178
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:44,600
and therefore he would have been
unable to trick and lure Sarah 

1179
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,160
Everard into his car and to her 
death. 

1180
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,040
Instead, he used that exact 
warrant card and that exact 

1181
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,440
authority that he was allowed to
maintain in order to carry out 

1182
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,720
the rape and murder of an 
innocent woman. 

1183
01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:00,520
But before I get too irate, 
let's round off the timeline and

1184
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:04,040
discuss what Wayne got up to in 
the hours and days after 

1185
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:08,360
committing such a heinous crime.
At 2:34 AM, he pulled into a 

1186
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,880
petrol station and bought a 
bottle of water, a leukocyd, and

1187
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:15,240
an apple. 
And at this point we to assume 

1188
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:18,359
that Sarah's body was in his 
car. 

1189
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,680
He just parked it and left it 
outside while he ran into the 

1190
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,359
shop. 
I'm not sure where else it would

1191
01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:27,160
have been at that moment if not 
in his car, because following 

1192
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,560
the visit to the petrol station,
he was driving to that plot of 

1193
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:34,040
land that he owned where Sarah's
body was eventually recovered 

1194
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,359
from. 
It's believed at this stage that

1195
01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:39,399
he hid Sarah's body on that 
piece of land. 

1196
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,840
It was actually a hotspot for 
people fly tipping, which is 

1197
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,760
basically just dumping rubbish 
dish that's too big for them to 

1198
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:48,279
dispose of. 
So there was a load of just shit

1199
01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:51,880
around, and it's believed that 
he had found an industrial 

1200
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:57,359
fridge to hide her in or under, 
at least for the next few hours 

1201
01:08:57,359 --> 01:09:01,279
while he drove back home and 
tried to upkeep his normal 

1202
01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:05,160
family life without suspicion. 
By 7:30 AM he drove back to 

1203
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,800
where he had left that rental 
car the night before, and he 

1204
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,000
switched again. 
Now he was going to take the car

1205
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,800
back to the shop. 
In total, he had racked up 

1206
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:16,600
around 300 miles on that thing 
in less than 24 hours. 

1207
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:20,000
And then just before he returned
home to his family once again, 

1208
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:23,920
he stopped in a Costa and bought
a hot chocolate and a sweet 

1209
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:27,080
treat for himself. 
The fact that he can eat at all 

1210
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,920
after what he had just done is 
one thing, but the fact that 

1211
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:34,640
this is a hot chocolate and a 
Bakewell tart, not even a 

1212
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,840
coffee, you know, for the 
caffeine, for the energy. 

1213
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,720
It's almost like he's trying to 
comfort himself with comfort 

1214
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,160
food. 
A hot chocolate is that to me. 

1215
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,840
And he can actually be seen on 
CCTV inside that Costa Coffee 

1216
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,720
shop rubbing his hands anxiously
and looking around. 

1217
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,360
Seems like the guilt was already
plaguing him. 

1218
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,160
Mind you, he still has to fully 
dispose of Sarah's body later 

1219
01:09:58,160 --> 01:09:59,560
on. 
And I think that makes his 

1220
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:03,000
little hot chocolate run even 
more horrifying because this is 

1221
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:06,320
a man that is mid murder cover 
up, stopping off for a sweet 

1222
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:11,200
treat before continuing to 
execute his plan and handle this

1223
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,480
dead body. 
The next thing he did was take 

1224
01:10:13,480 --> 01:10:16,640
care of Sarah's phone. 
This is around 9:30 AM. 

1225
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:20,800
It seems he had cut up her SIM 
card and thrown her actual phone

1226
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,520
into a ribbon in Sandwich, Kent.
Later on in the investigation, 

1227
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:27,200
parts of her SIM card would be 
found in his car. 

1228
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:31,240
That was crucial evidence that 
linked him to her in those early

1229
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,920
days of the disappearance. 
By 11:00 AM he had pulled into a

1230
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,560
service station and bought an 
empty Jerry can that he 

1231
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:43,360
proceeded to fill at the pump 
with six litres of petrol, fuel 

1232
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:48,320
that he would later use to burn 
Sarah's body beyond recognition.

1233
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:52,800
It's quite interesting to me 
just how brazen he is at this 

1234
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:56,120
point in time. 
It's not even been 11 hours 

1235
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,640
since he committed this murder, 
but clearly he's quite confident

1236
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,800
that the crime won't trace back 
to him because here he is, full 

1237
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:07,200
face on display his in his own 
car and knowing that all of this

1238
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:10,040
will show up on this car 
garage's CCTV footage. 

1239
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,880
He's not even trying to cover 
his tracks or obscure his 

1240
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,960
identity in the process. 
But his plan was quite clear. 

1241
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:20,160
He would drive back to that plot
of land, pull Sarah's body out 

1242
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:24,600
from where he had hidden her, 
and he would try to incinerate 

1243
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,080
her body to get rid of all the 
evidence. 

1244
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,880
But quickly, before he did so, 
it was time for another sweet 

1245
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,360
treat. 
Wayne Cousins bought a salted 

1246
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,480
caramel latte at the petrol 
station and then he stopped off 

1247
01:11:36,480 --> 01:11:38,360
at McDonald's drive through for 
some lunch. 

1248
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:41,760
Yes, a McDonald's drive through.
As if he hadn't sexually 

1249
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,680
harassed the women at one. 
Just five days prior to this. 

1250
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,160
A little over an hour later, 
Wayne's car was parked up by 

1251
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:52,200
this plot of land that he owned,
and a fire was spotted in the 

1252
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,960
area. 
That evening he would return 

1253
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:59,440
home to his family, to his wife,
to his two young kids, as if 

1254
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:02,640
nothing had happened. 
As if for the last two days he 

1255
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,400
hadn't been committing heinous 
crime after crime. 

1256
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,480
As if he wasn't now a murderer. 
And it seems that his family 

1257
01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:12,360
didn't really notice anything 
unusual about his behaviour. 

1258
01:12:12,440 --> 01:12:16,840
He was acting normal as ever, be
it because he truly was 

1259
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:20,360
completely devoid of empathy or 
because he was doing a good job 

1260
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,440
at hiding his anxiety and his 
guilt from those around him. 

1261
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,960
Because while I do believe that 
this man didn't feel any empathy

1262
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:30,120
towards Sarah, I think he felt a
lot for himself. 

1263
01:12:30,480 --> 01:12:33,280
I think he felt sorry for 
himself now because he he was 

1264
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,960
dealing with a lot of guilt and 
a lot of stress thinking about 

1265
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:37,560
about how he was going to get 
away with this. 

1266
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,640
He actually called off of work 
the next day saying that he 

1267
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,240
wouldn't be able to make it in 
due to stress. 

1268
01:12:43,480 --> 01:12:45,120
And you know what? 
I do believe that he was 

1269
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,320
stressed. 
I think the amount of sweet 

1270
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:51,640
treats and warm drinks, salted 
caramel lattes, hot chocolates, 

1271
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:57,000
little pastries, to me that does
strike as a very pathetic man 

1272
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,720
trying to comfort himself in any
small way that he can. 

1273
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:03,800
Not that he deserves to feel any
level of comfort right now, but 

1274
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:05,880
it seems to me that he's trying 
to self. 

1275
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,400
He also emailed his supervisor 
around the same time saying that

1276
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:13,800
he no longer wants to carry a 
firearm and I don't know the 

1277
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:16,840
exact reason that he gave. 
But given the fact that he has 

1278
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:21,080
just emailed and taken time off 
with stress, maybe he was 

1279
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,760
insinuating with this that he 
thought that he could be a 

1280
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:27,440
danger to himself if he was 
allowed a firearm the day after 

1281
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,760
the cover up. 
It was March 5th and Cousins is 

1282
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:34,320
still trying to move as normally
as he can, even calling up the 

1283
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,120
vet to book in their family dog 
for an appointment to discuss 

1284
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:40,080
her separation anxiety. 
Yeah, I was wondering if I 

1285
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:43,680
could. 
Book my dog in for the for the 

1286
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,200
vet so I can have a discussion 
about her issues please. 

1287
01:13:47,440 --> 01:13:50,920
She, well, we think she's 
suffering from like separation 

1288
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:54,880
anxiety later on that same day. 
He went to AB and Q which is 

1289
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:58,800
like the UK's version of Home 
Depot, and he bought 2 giant 

1290
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,200
builders bags that are usually 
used for shifting like super 

1291
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:05,480
heavy materials on a building 
site like rubble and rocks and 

1292
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,240
bricks. 
It's believed that Wayne had 

1293
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:12,320
bought these in order to drag 
Sarah's body between where he 

1294
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:17,120
had been burning it and storing 
it into the pond where it was 

1295
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,760
eventually found. 
Somewhere along the way he had 

1296
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:24,480
also placed an order on Amazon 
for a big plastic tarp and a 

1297
01:14:24,480 --> 01:14:28,080
bungee cargo net. 
I now he will have been very 

1298
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:31,320
aware of the intensifying 
investigation into Sarah's 

1299
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:34,160
disappearance. 
I mean, it was the main news 

1300
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:38,160
story in London already. 
By day two he will have been 

1301
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:42,680
stressed, but just the concept 
of a murderer having a day off 

1302
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,880
of work for stress afterwards, 
it's laughable, isn't it? 

1303
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:52,000
On March 7th, 72 hours after 
murdering Sarah, it's the day 

1304
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,560
before he was about to be 
arrested in his home. 

1305
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,840
Wayne Cousins takes his two kids
out to play for the very last 

1306
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,920
time, but he doesn't take them 
to a park or to a soft play 

1307
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:06,000
area. 
He took them to the plot of land

1308
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:10,280
that he owned where he was 
storing his murder victim's 

1309
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:13,240
body. 
And it's unclear actually when 

1310
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:16,520
he used those builders bags to 
transport her body into the 

1311
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,760
pond. 
The idea that it could have 

1312
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,840
actually been then while his 
kids were playing meters away, 

1313
01:15:23,480 --> 01:15:27,360
it just makes you feel sick. 
The following day was March 8th.

1314
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:31,200
Wayne was still off of work for 
stress, and it seemed that he 

1315
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:33,200
spent most of his day just at 
home. 

1316
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:38,120
Around 7:10 that night, he tried
to wipe his phone completely. 

1317
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,040
He reset the whole thing to 
factory settings, deleting 

1318
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:42,800
absolutely everything he could 
on there. 

1319
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,400
And it's not 100% clear what 
kind of evidence he felt like he

1320
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,960
was getting rid of, maybe like 
location data. 

1321
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:52,800
But no doubt there were a lot of
important things on that phone 

1322
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,480
that were probably caught in the
crossfire. 

1323
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:58,400
We can only imagine pictures of 
his kids, his wife, their 

1324
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:03,000
memories and and he's willing to
delete it all forever in order 

1325
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,960
to get away with the rape and 
murder of a young woman. 

1326
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:09,560
A little under an hour later the
police knocked on cousins door 

1327
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,400
and arrested him. 
After that brief conversation 

1328
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:15,560
where he was still mostly 
denying the accusations against 

1329
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:19,040
him, police took him into 
custody at Belmarsh Prison and 

1330
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,240
there he would be checked on 
every 15 minutes. 

1331
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:25,960
After being deemed A vulnerable 
prisoner, police likely felt 

1332
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,000
based on something that he'd 
said or done, that he could 

1333
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,640
possibly be a danger to himself.
And actually they would be right

1334
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:37,520
because the following day news 
broke that the man arrested in 

1335
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:41,280
connection with Sarah Everard's 
case was now in hospital. 

1336
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,800
He had been found collapsed in 
his cell with pretty bad head 

1337
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,600
injuries. 
I think he was unconscious. 

1338
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,920
He had been alone at the time, 
so officers immediately knew 

1339
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,360
that whatever had happened to 
him was self-inflicted. 

1340
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:59,520
It turned out that Wayne Cousins
had smashed his head off of his 

1341
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:04,640
cell toilet bowl and knocked 
himself out, but he was treated 

1342
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:07,720
in hospital and sent back to his
cell within a matter of hours. 

1343
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:11,640
By now police had seized his car
and forensic tests had been 

1344
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,800
performed that not only revealed
those fragments of Sarah's SIM 

1345
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:20,200
card, but also traces of her 
blood and Wayne's semen in the 

1346
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,520
back seat of the car. 
A number of other things had 

1347
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:26,120
been seized from his family home
by now, including a petrol can, 

1348
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:31,920
boxes of latex gloves, a police 
badge, plastic cuffs, along with

1349
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,640
a sex aid that was not further 
clarified in reports. 

1350
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:41,560
So we can only imagine. 
I know Wayne knew that the jig 

1351
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:43,800
was up. 
I don't know how long exactly it

1352
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,760
took, but he very quickly came 
clean to the police about the 

1353
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:50,760
fact that he had indeed murdered
Sarah Everard. 

1354
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:54,920
Couple of months later, June 
2021, Wayne Cousins pled guilty 

1355
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:58,240
to the kidnapping, rape and 
murder of Sarah, and this meant 

1356
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,120
that the case wouldn't have to 
go to trial. 

1357
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:03,920
Sarah's loved ones were 
thankfully spared the prolonged 

1358
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:07,960
trauma of having to endure a 
trial where all of the evidence 

1359
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:11,600
would have to be laid out in 
excruciating detail, all while 

1360
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,040
her murderer would be pretending
that he's not responsible. 

1361
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:18,280
Luckily, he did plead guilty 
before he got to that point, but

1362
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:21,760
when the time came for Wayne 
Cousins sentencing, he was 

1363
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:25,840
handed the most severe 
punishment possible in the Uka 

1364
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:29,480
whole life order. 
He will be spending the rest of 

1365
01:18:29,480 --> 01:18:34,040
his working life in prison and 
he will die behind bars. 

1366
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:37,640
He's also serving concurrent 
shorter terms for two cases of 

1367
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:40,800
indecent exposure, including the
McDonald's incident. 

1368
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,560
And even though he did actually 
try to appeal against his whole 

1369
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:47,480
life order, I don't know if he 
was trying to say that it's not 

1370
01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:49,760
fair to keep him in prison for 
the rest of his life. 

1371
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:55,240
Regardless, in July 2022, his 
appeal was dismissed. 

1372
01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:58,920
Of course, in the aftermath of 
this case, the whole UK was 

1373
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:03,000
shaken with the absolute 
shattering of trust in our law 

1374
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:06,680
enforcement, not only based on 
the fact that a serving police 

1375
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:10,400
officer had used his position in
order to to kidnap and murder a 

1376
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,840
woman, but also because there 
were so many chances to prevent 

1377
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:17,240
this, so many chances that were 
missed. 

1378
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,760
The amount of times Wayne 
Cousins managed to pass police 

1379
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:24,960
vetting despite being in major 
debt, despite having several 

1380
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:28,360
reports of indecent exposure 
against him, despite literally 

1381
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:31,200
being identified as a suspect in
one of them. 

1382
01:19:31,480 --> 01:19:35,280
Police had his name, they had 
his car registration plate, but 

1383
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:37,880
they failed to look into that 
incident quick enough. 

1384
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:41,440
So Cousins was able to keep his 
job, to keep his warrant card, 

1385
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:45,600
to keep his handcuffs, and he 
was able to use them to murder 

1386
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,840
Sarah Everard. 
The Met Police did try to defend

1387
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,040
themselves on all of this, 
saying that there was actually 

1388
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:54,600
nothing in Wayne's background at
the time that he was hired and 

1389
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,880
the time that he was vetted that
was cause for concern for them. 

1390
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,800
And I actually think that just 
makes them look even worse. 

1391
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:04,440
Like that's not a defence. 
Sure, Wayne Cousins didn't have 

1392
01:20:04,440 --> 01:20:08,360
any convictions, but as several 
reports and accusations, not 

1393
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:09,800
enough to call. 
What was concern? 

1394
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,360
We're still going to let that 
man become a police officer? 

1395
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,280
Even in the aftermath of this 
case, more women came forward 

1396
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:18,280
with allegations and reports of 
previous encounters with Wayne 

1397
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:20,240
Cousins. 
They had seen his face on the 

1398
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:23,960
news related to this case and 
they had finally recognised that

1399
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:28,720
he was their attacker as well. 
So many more indecent exposure 

1400
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,760
incidents were reported and even
an attempted kidnapping at 

1401
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:38,200
knifepoint from 1995. 
One woman had been carrying that

1402
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:43,000
with her for decades and finally
she had a name to pin to her 

1403
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,920
traumatic memory. 
I do need to clarify that Wayne 

1404
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,560
Cousins has never been charged 
or convicted of anything in 

1405
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:52,040
relation to that allegation. 
An allegation is all. 

1406
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:56,320
Well, it is right now at least. 
But what is incredibly clear is 

1407
01:20:56,320 --> 01:21:00,000
that there is a pattern of 
sexual deviance that was never 

1408
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:03,320
taken seriously enough to stop 
Wayne Cousins in his tracks. 

1409
01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:08,200
He was allowed to simmer in his 
sick actions and even escalate 

1410
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:12,160
to the point of murder, all 
while clocking in for his high 

1411
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,080
power job. 
And I'm not entirely sure where 

1412
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:16,920
to add this into the episode, so
I guess I'll just say it now. 

1413
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:20,520
One or two of his old friends 
came forward to say that Wayne 

1414
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:24,040
had always been a weird and 
perverted person. 

1415
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:29,280
Back when he was in his 20s, he 
was dating teenagers as young as

1416
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:34,240
14. 
A fully grown legal adult dating

1417
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:38,040
a child. 
It's horrifying to see just how 

1418
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:42,560
far back these patterns go. 
Oh, and also, he was discovered 

1419
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:46,240
to have been in possession of 
indecent images of children at 

1420
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:48,760
some point in his life. 
I don't know if they were in his

1421
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:52,240
possession at the time of his 
arrest, but this is what an 

1422
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:55,480
inquiry found later on. 
I believe there were multiple 

1423
01:21:55,480 --> 01:21:58,640
different inquiries done 
internally within the police and

1424
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,960
issued by the government to dig 
into the workings of the Met 

1425
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,880
Police and all the other 
institutions that Cousins had 

1426
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:09,320
worked for in his life in order 
to figure out how the hell this 

1427
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:13,320
could have happened. 12 
Different gross misconduct on 

1428
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:16,440
misconduct notices were issued 
to different officers as a 

1429
01:22:16,440 --> 01:22:22,000
result of these inquiries. 12 
There was so much shady shit 

1430
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,720
going on behind the scenes that 
had been flying under the radar 

1431
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:27,920
this whole time. 
It soon came to light that many 

1432
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:31,760
of Wayne Cousins colleagues were
very aware of his depraved 

1433
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,880
sexual predilections. 
As I mentioned earlier, he'd 

1434
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,600
been very open with them about 
the fact that he liked violent 

1435
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:41,000
pornography, but now it was 
discovered that back at the 

1436
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,800
Civil Nuclear Constabulary, many
of his Co workers gave him the 

1437
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:50,120
nickname The Rapist. 
That was because he made a lot 

1438
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:54,080
of female members of staff 
uncomfortable, be it with words 

1439
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:58,320
or actions, we don't know. 
But they called him The Rapist 

1440
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:02,520
as like a friendly jokey 
nickname. 

1441
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:08,720
It's unbelievable that a serving
police officer had that nickname

1442
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:13,400
from other officers. 
A few of these fellow officers 

1443
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,320
were investigated regarding this
nickname and many of them denied

1444
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:17,400
it. 
No, I've never heard that. 

1445
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:18,480
I've never heard him being 
called that. 

1446
01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:21,200
I've never called him that. 
But enough of them came out 

1447
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:25,000
saying that it was true that it 
really makes you wonder, was 

1448
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,440
there a level of protection 
between these officers? 

1449
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:29,840
Were they covering for 
themselves now? 

1450
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:31,280
Were they covering for each 
other? 

1451
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:34,840
It also came to light that there
were a lot of highly 

1452
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,880
inappropriate messages shared in
Group chats among police 

1453
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:40,640
officers, many of them Wayne 
Cousins was a part of. 

1454
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,480
In fact, a conversation that 
Wayne had with another officer 

1455
01:23:43,480 --> 01:23:46,640
went like this. 
PC Jonathan Cobbin had messaged 

1456
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,520
into the chat saying that he had
just seen a woman drunk and 

1457
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,560
unconscious as he was getting 
off of the train. 

1458
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:55,200
Wayne texted back. 
Did you finger her to see if she

1459
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:58,240
was OK? 
PC Cobbon texted back. 

1460
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:02,440
I considered it, but she was a 
right old lump so I just raped a

1461
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:05,280
bystander instead. 
Another conversation that they 

1462
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,520
had about the fear of losing 
their jobs went as follows, 

1463
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,960
Cousins said. 
Mate, they aren't going to ditch

1464
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:16,640
you with your skill set unless 
you finger a DV victim, unless 

1465
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:21,000
you sexually assault a victim of
domestic violence that is coming

1466
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,920
to you for help. 
He quickly follows up with PC 

1467
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:25,520
Coburn. 
If that's the case, you're 

1468
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:28,400
probably fucked. 
And he responds, that's all 

1469
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:30,840
right. 
DV victims love it. 

1470
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:32,920
That's why they're repeat 
victims. 

1471
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:36,080
Then another officer chimes in 
just to make a comment about 

1472
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:38,000
repeat victims of domestic 
violence. 

1473
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:42,440
APC Joel Borders says no, they 
just don't listen with a 

1474
01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:45,480
laughing face. 
In these chats, they would share

1475
01:24:45,480 --> 01:24:49,360
graphics depicting violence 
against women and making a whole

1476
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:52,160
manner of inappropriate 
comments, be it in relation to 

1477
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:54,840
cases that they were working on 
or just in general. 

1478
01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:59,360
There was misogyny, racism, 
violent comments, being 

1479
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:02,760
dismissive, and joking about 
rape complaints. 

1480
01:25:03,440 --> 01:25:06,640
A number of police officers lost
their jobs in the aftermath of 

1481
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:11,720
these inquiries, which is 
bittersweet news because, well, 

1482
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:14,400
good, they shouldn't be allowed 
to keep those jobs. 

1483
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,880
But also, how the hell had all 
of this flown under the radar 

1484
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:21,600
for so long? 
Inquiries revealed that in the 

1485
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:26,840
five years prior to Sarah's 
murder, 27 different people 

1486
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:30,400
working for the Met Police had 
committed offences including 

1487
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:36,520
rape and possession of indecent 
images of children. 27 different

1488
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:41,040
police officers in London alone.
These are the kind of people 

1489
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:44,320
that are slipping through the 
cracks of these abysmal vetting 

1490
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:47,960
processes and being able to have
authority over the rest of us. 

1491
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,080
And let me tell you about the 
worst of the worst. 

1492
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:55,240
Right behind Wayne Cousins was a
man named David Carrick. 

1493
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,920
He had been brought to police 
attention by a woman. 

1494
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,520
The very next day after Cousins 
sentencing, she came forward to 

1495
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:06,520
say that she too had been raped 
by a serving Metropolitan Police

1496
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,400
officer, PC Carrick. 
As investigations into this 

1497
01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:13,480
progressed, everyone was 
horrified to learn that this 

1498
01:26:13,480 --> 01:26:19,640
woman was just one of many. 
This man was a serial rapist 

1499
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:24,400
still actively working for the 
police in the same unit as Wayne

1500
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:28,280
Cousins. 
There were at least 12 different

1501
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:33,200
women that he had done this to 
her 12 and just like with 

1502
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:36,320
cousins, there had been so many 
red flags. 

1503
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,400
In fact, enquiries found that 
there were sixteen chances to 

1504
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,760
stop David Carrick that had been
missed. 

1505
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:47,000
As if our trust hadn't been 
shattered enough, now there's 

1506
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:51,360
two of the most dangerous men in
London that had been employed by

1507
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:56,040
the Metropolitan Police. 
As the year went on, 2021 into 

1508
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,960
2022, more and more complaints 
came out about police officers 

1509
01:26:59,960 --> 01:27:03,360
in different scenarios. 
One of them had pretended to be 

1510
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:06,600
a model scout and filmed women 
without their permission. 

1511
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,760
There were the officers that had
taken photos of the dead bodies 

1512
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:14,000
of Bieber, Henry and Nicole 
Smallman and sent them into a 

1513
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:17,760
WhatsApp chat with other police,
calling them the dead birds. 

1514
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:21,360
The amount of horrific group 
chats that were exposed was 

1515
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:25,840
immense with one colleague 
reading I would happily rape 

1516
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:27,960
you. 
These are the people that are 

1517
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:33,160
hired and paid money to serve 
and protect us. 

1518
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:36,840
Thankfully so many pieces of 
shit lost their job and were 

1519
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:40,000
handed prison sentences 
themselves In the aftermath of 

1520
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,440
this case. 
It was like Wayne Cousins had 

1521
01:27:42,440 --> 01:27:46,360
opened the floodgates that had 
been locked for far too long and

1522
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:49,960
finally all of this horrific 
activity could be exposed. 

1523
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,240
Eventually, even the top dog 
herself lost her. 

1524
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:57,400
The head of the Metropolitan 
Police Commissioner, Cressida 

1525
01:27:57,400 --> 01:28:01,040
Dick, had said right from the 
start that she would not resign 

1526
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:03,920
from her position, despite the 
public calling for her to do so.

1527
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,800
But eventually, as things got 
worse and worse, she lost the 

1528
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,960
support of our mayor at the time
and she handed in her 

1529
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:13,480
resignation. 
Now, we've spent the latter part

1530
01:28:13,480 --> 01:28:16,800
of this episode talking about 
the horrendous police officers 

1531
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,040
that do need to be named and 
shamed. 

1532
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:22,160
But now I think it's time we 
bring it back to the woman at 

1533
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:26,440
the centre of this case. 
Sarah Everard should still be 

1534
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:28,880
here. 
She should still be living the 

1535
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,240
amazing life that she had built 
for herself. 

1536
01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:34,800
She would be turning 39 years 
old just next month. 

1537
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:38,600
She might have gotten married or
had kids of her own by now. 

1538
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:41,720
And I think that's part of why 
this case stayed with so many 

1539
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:45,320
people in the way that it did, 
because Sarah Everard felt 

1540
01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:47,960
familiar to many of us young 
women. 

1541
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:51,800
She could have been a friend or 
a colleague or someone we'd gone

1542
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:56,000
to uni with. 
She was all of us and what 

1543
01:28:56,000 --> 01:29:00,560
happened to her was horrific. 
It was cruel, it was deeply 

1544
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:04,440
unfair and while Wayne Cousins 
will spend the rest of his life 

1545
01:29:04,440 --> 01:29:09,680
behind bars, that can never undo
the pain caused to Sarah's loved

1546
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,760
ones or the impact that this 
case had on so many people 

1547
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:17,480
across the UK. 
So, as always, I want to end 

1548
01:29:17,480 --> 01:29:20,800
this episode by remembering 
Sarah first and foremost for the

1549
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:24,520
life that she lived, rather than
the way that it was taken from 

1550
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,160
her. 
Sarah's mother Susan spoke of 

1551
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:30,480
the loss of her daughter, saying
I yearn for her. 

1552
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,120
I remember all the lovely things
about her. 

1553
01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:37,240
She was caring, she was funny, 
she was clever, but she was good

1554
01:29:37,240 --> 01:29:40,640
at practical things too. 
She was a beautiful dancer. 

1555
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:44,200
She was a wonderful daughter. 
She was always there to listen, 

1556
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:48,000
to advise or simply to share the
minutiae of the day. 

1557
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:51,000
I'm following her mum's words. 
As we come to the end of this 

1558
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:54,720
episode, I want to take one last
moment to remember Sarah Everard

1559
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,000
from all US here at Outlaw 
Podcast. 

1560
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:02,080
We send our sincere condolences 
to her loved ones, and that is 

1561
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:05,560
all we have for today's episode.
Thank you so much for tuning in 

1562
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:07,640
to this episode of Outlaw 
Podcast. 

1563
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,520
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1564
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:13,280
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1565
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,280
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I read through every single 

1566
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:19,400
comment that you guys leave both
on YouTube and on the podcast 

1567
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:21,400
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Trust me, I'm in the Spotify 

1568
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:23,160
back end. 
I am reading absolutely 

1569
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,480
everything that you guys are 
saying and I really appreciate, 

1570
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:29,480
you know, I love how involved 
you guys get with these stories 

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and with these cases. 
I think it's so important that 

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we're all screaming about them, 
not just me, you know? 

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So if you are listening on a 
podcast platform, please follow 

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us actually and rate the podcast
5 stars. 

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And you know, with all that 
being said, I'll see you in the 

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next episode. 
Thank you so much for watching. 

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Bye.