Kamis, 30 September 2021
Sarah Everard: 'I'm calling on Cressida Dick to resign' - Harriet Harman - Sky News
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2021-09-30 19:08:47Z
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How Scots can download the Covid vaccine passport app ahead of rule change - Daily Record
Scots can now download the Covid vaccine passport app ahead of the rule changes coming into effect from tomorrow.
NHS Scotland’s Covid Status app gives punters access to their vaccine certification through their smartphone.
The software will display a QR code, which can be shown and checked by door staff before entering any ‘high risk’ venues from October 1.
Scots will be required to show evidence that they have received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine before entry into the likes of nightclubs and sports stadiums.
The new app is available to download on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for Android phones.
Anyone who is unable to show a copy of the vaccine certification through a smartphone can also display a paper copy or through a downloadable PDF - both of which can be accessed through the NHS Inform website.
Some Scots will be exempt from the scheme - including under 18s, participants in vaccine trials, those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and people working or performing in venues.
Affected venues will have two and a half weeks to test and trial the scheme before it becomes law on October 18.
It is hoped that the introduction of vaccine passports will help slow the spread of Covid and reduce pressure on the NHS.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: “This is a very limited scheme and we hope this will allow businesses to remain open and prevent any further restrictions as we head into autumn and winter.
"The two-and-a-half weeks – effectively a grace period – before legal enforcement applies will allow businesses to test, adapt and build confidence in their own practical arrangements to comply with the scheme.”
The SNP minister added: “I also want to ensure that as many people get vaccinated as possible and particularly to increase uptake in the younger age cohort, so anything that helps to incentivise that is helpful.
"Scotland is not unique in introducing such an approach. Certification schemes are in place across Europe, including Ireland and France, and the Welsh Government is also planning similar measures.”
NHS Scotland’s Covid Status app can be downloading for Apple here and Android here.
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2021-09-30 17:50:51Z
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'I am so sorry' says Met Commissioner Cressida Dick after Wayne Couzens whole-life sentence - Guardian News
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2021-09-30 15:47:39Z
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HGV driver dies in crash with three army trucks– multiple emergency service units deployed - Express
The horrific incident took place on the northbound stretch of the A38 near Mickleover shortly before 2pm on Wednesday, September 29. The collision involved three army trucks and a HGV, police said.
Derbyshire Constabulary confirmed the driver of the lorry, a 53-year-old man, was taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, but was later pronounced dead in hospital.
Police said the victim’s family have been informed.
Investigating officers have urged anyone with information to come forward.
Motorists with dashcam footage have been encouraged to contact the police.
A huge emergency response was triggered yesterday with crews from Derbyshire Police, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service all in attendance.
Pictures show more than a dozen responders were deployed onto the carriageway.
Traffic was held in both directions for several hours on the A38 between Findern and Kingsway.
Motorists reported long queues stretching back to Burton.
In a statement Derbyshire Constabulary, said: "The incident, which occurred on the northbound stretch of the road close to Mickleover at 1.45pm yesterday (29 September), involved three army trucks and an HGV.
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In a brief statement on Wednesday, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We got a call out at 13.59 and are in attendance.
“We have crews from Kingsway, Nottingham Road and Ascot Drive.
"The police are leading with this. That is all we can say at this time."
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2021-09-30 14:07:00Z
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COVID-19: Warning of redundancies as £70bn furlough scheme ends - Sky News
The government's coronavirus furlough scheme ends today after supporting millions of workers during the pandemic.
Ministers say the wages of more than 11 million jobs were subsidised for at least some of the scheme's duration, at a cost of about £70bn.
There is now uncertainty over the almost one million people still thought to be on the scheme at the end of September, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates.
Meanwhile, job vacancies in the UK have hit a record of more than a million, according to recent ONS data, with openings in the hospitality and transport sectors up more than 75% in three months.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke told Sky News' Kay Burley: "There is a lot of opportunity out there for people now. There's never an easy moment to end these measures.
"They've been hugely important but it is also time to recognise that we are now, thankfully, out of the teeth of this pandemic... and we're in a situation where normal opportunity is back out there for people to embrace."
However, he added: "There will be some job losses but there are also these one million vacancies in the labour market for people to move towards and a huge range of support to help them do that."
Economists say there is likely to be a rise in unemployment due to new redundancies, despite the fact some may be able to find work in recovering sectors such as travel and hospitality.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said he still had "doubts" about whether the economy had recovered enough to re-employ all those coming off furlough.
The winding up of the scheme could hit some especially hard as it comes at the same time as the £20 Universal Credit uplift ends, and amid a background of rising energy bills.
The Liberal Democrats have warned of a "tidal wave" of job losses and want furlough to continue for some sectors.
In a letter to the chancellor, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said furlough should be maintained for another six months for 10 industries particularly badly affected by the pandemic, such as air travel.
"The withdrawal of furlough risks having a devastating impact on countless families already facing a winter of soaring energy bills," said Ms Jardine.
"The government needs to rethink its approach or the country could face a Coronavirus Black Thursday."
The party says the extension would cost about £600m.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: "I am immensely proud of the furlough scheme, and even more proud of UK workers and businesses whose resolve has seen us through an immensely difficult time.
"With the recovery well underway, and more than one million job vacancies, now is the right time for the scheme to draw to a close.
"But that in no way means the end of our support. Our Plan for Jobs is helping people into work and making sure they have the skills needed for the jobs of the future."
Following the end of the furlough scheme, the government has launched a £500m support package for vulnerable households over winter.
The new Household Support Fund will help people with essentials over the coming months and will be distributed by councils in England.
It will be available as small grants to meet daily needs such as food, clothing, and utilities and will be available to councils from October.
The devolved administrations will receive up to £79m of the £500m.
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2021-09-30 06:56:15Z
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Labour Party Leader Challenged On U-Turn On The £15 Minimum Wage & His Furlough Views | GMB - Good Morning Britain
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2021-09-30 08:58:35Z
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Petrol shortage: Waze uses push notifications to track fuel stocks - BBC News
Traffic app Waze is asking UK users to tell it which petrol stations have fuel available, amid the UK's shortage of petrol at the pump.
Users of the app are receiving push notifications asking them to "help your community stay informed".
This data is then plugged into the app's live map for others to see which stations are open.
Similar measures have been criticised as fuelling panic buying and adding to the problem.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic
Many local Facebook groups and apps such as Nextdoor have been flooded in recent days with messages from people offering advice about which petrol stations have fuel.
Waze, a subsidiary of Google, said the feature to show fuel stocks was not new but the company "has made the decision to push 'notify users' to encourage its use".
"Fears of disruption to fuel supply have created bumper-to-bumper traffic at petrol stations," Waze UK manager Ru Roberts said.
"In some areas, speeds have slowed to as low as 3km/h (1.9mph) as drivers rushed to fill their cars."
The push notifications "will enable motorists to guide others to forecourts which have remaining supplies, saving unnecessary journeys to those which have already run out," he said.
'Honey pot'
The government maintains there is no national fuel shortage - and any regional issues are fuelled by extreme demand.
Earlier this week, Brian Madderson, who chairs the Petrol Retailers' Association, told BBC News: "One of the reasons for this is social media.
"As soon as a tanker arrives at a filling station, people on social media are advising that a tanker has arrived and then it's like bees to a honey pot.
"Everyone flocks there… within a few hours, it is out again."
Waze's app is most often used to crowdsource live traffic data, so it can tell users about sudden road closures and traffic jams.
But now its data showed which areas of major population centres had the worst traffic around fuel stations, the company said.
For example:
- On Wednesday lunchtime in Liverpool, traffic at Hunter Street headed towards a BP petrol station on New Islington Road had had an average speed of just 5mph
- At the same time in London, one of the worst traffic jams had been on Park Lane, in Mayfair, heading towards the Esso station, where traffic had slowed to 7.5mph
Its internal data also showed in some areas - such as Liverpool, Luton, and Manchester - the distance driven had actually increased on some days, in part due to people searching for petrol.
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Rabu, 29 September 2021
Sarah Everard: Killer Wayne Couzens could be handed whole life order when sentenced today - Sky News
The police officer who kidnapped Sarah Everard before raping and strangling her could be handed a whole life order when he is sentenced later today.
Wayne Couzens, 48, used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to abduct the 33-year-old marketing executive as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of 3 March.
The firearms officer, who had finished a 12-hour shift at the US Embassy that morning, drove her to a secluded area near Dover in Kent before parking up and raping her.
Couzens then burned her body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned near Ashford, Kent, before he dumped the remains in a nearby pond.
Amid extensive publicity around the search for Ms Everard, Couzens took his family on a day out to the woods where he had taken her body and allowed his two children to play close by.
When he was arrested at his home in Deal on 9 March he concocted a story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang, but later pleaded guilty to Ms Everard's kidnap, rape and murder.
As Ms Everard's parents and sister condemned him at the start of his sentencing at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, he sat shaking in the dock with his head bowed.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC argued the case was so exceptional and unprecedented it could warrant a whole life order, which would see Couzens die in jail.
Opening the case, he said Ms Everard's disappearance was one of the most widely publicised missing person investigations the country has ever seen.
After her body was discovered a week later, it became summarised on social media by the hashtag "she was just walking home", which he said did not completely describe what had happened.
"Whilst it is impossible to summarise what the defendant did to Sarah Everard in just five words, if it had to be done then it would be more appropriate to do so as deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire," said Mr Little.
Lord Justice Fulford will hand down his sentence later today.
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2021-09-30 02:57:52Z
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Sarah Everard's final moments caught on haunting dashcam footage - Daily Record
Haunting video evidence has been released of the moment Sarah Everard was "arrested" by evil cop Wayne Couzens before he raped and murdered her.
The footage, taken from a passing vehicle's dashcam, has caught the chilling moment just before the killer 'captured' Sarah under the guise she was being arrested for breaking coronavirus rules.
Sinister police officer Couzens, used his law knowledge to dupe Sarah and detain her under false pretense, before bundling her into his car and driving her into the countryside.
A court heard today that it was in that location where Couzens raped and killed Everard before storing her body in a fridge.
At the Old Bailey it was revealed how Sarah had been conned as she walked home from a friend's house on March 3 earlier this year.
She vanished in Clapham in south London after Couzens had been driving for hours around the city.
The court heard just three days before, he had taken out a hire car in Devon and had even bought handcuffs from Amazon for the crime, according to a Mirror Online report.
Prosecutor Tom Little told the court Sarah "would have walked all the way back had she not have been kidnapped".
However, tragically she was "arrested" by Couzens, who had showed her his warrant, and taken on an 80-mile journey before she was raped, strangled and her body set on fire.
Sarah's body was found in a woodland stream in Kent, metres away from land owned by Couzens on March 9.
Mr Little said that at some point, after not being taken to a police station, Sarah "must have realised her fate."
Her killing prompted outrage across the UK and sparked protests at the rate of violence against women.
Sarah's family came face-to-face with evil Couzens for the first time today as they sat in the well of packed court 10.
Her father told Couzens to look at him as he read out his heartbreaking victim impact statement to the court.
Jeremy Everard said: "The horrendous murder of my daughter, Sarah, is in my mind all the time and will be for the rest of my life.
"A father wants to look after his children and fix everything and you have deliberately and with premeditation stopped my ability to do that."
The footage is from dash-cam and bus CCTV. One image shows the two of them standing behind his distinctive hire car with its hazards on. Another shows her in the back seat.
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Mr Little said: “Sarah Everard is standing on the pavement, behind the car, facing the defendant who is a few feet away. The defendant appears to touch his belt and to be holding up his hand towards Sarah Everard, as if showing her something in it.
“A couple were travelling on the south circulate in their car to their home address in south-east London and witnessed the kidnap of Sarah Everard.. The front seat passenger noticed what she described as a man and a woman standing on the pavement with the man behind the woman.
“The man was wearing dark clothing and she started to watch more closely because she saw a handcuff. The woman on the pavement already had her left arm behind her back.
“She was in the process of 'giving her other arm behind her back' as the man, who must have been the defendant, placed the handcuff on her right arm.
“She was compliant, with her head down and did not appear to be arguing. The defendant appeared to be confident. The immediate impression the passenger formed was that she was witnessing an undercover police officer arresting a woman, whom she assumed 'must have done something wrong.'
“So surprised was the witness by what she had seen, as she considered it to be relatively unusual and not something she had ever witnessed before, she remarked to her husband, ‘I’ve just seen a woman being handcuffed’.
"She then saw the man and the woman walking along in the direction of the vehicle with the handcuffed woman in front of the man and close together.
“All her husband, who was driving, was able to see or recall of the scene was a stationary white-coloured vehicle with its lights flashing.
“They were in fact witnessing the kidnap of Sarah Everard. She was detained by fraud."
Couzens will be sentenced on Thursday, September 30.
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2021-09-29 20:21:11Z
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Sarah Everard murder: Victim impact statements in full - BBC News
The family of Sarah Everard confronted her murderer in court and laid bare their loss and anguish. These are their victim impact statements in full.
The following accounts contain details which readers may find distressing.
Susan Everard, Sarah's mother
Sarah is gone and I am broken-hearted. She was my precious little girl, our youngest child. The feeling of loss is so great it is visceral. And with the sorrow come waves of panic at not being able to see her again. I can never talk to her, never hold her again, and never more be a part of her life. We have kept her dressing gown - it still smells of her and I hug that instead of her.
Sarah died in horrendous circumstances. I am tormented at the thought of what she endured. I play it out in my mind. I go through the terrible sequence of events. I wonder when she realised she was in mortal danger; I wonder what her murderer said to her. When he strangled her, for how long was she conscious, knowing she would die? It is torture to think of it.
Sarah was handcuffed, unable to defend herself, and there was no one to rescue her. She spent her last hours on this earth with the very worst of humanity. She lost her life because Wayne Couzens wanted to satisfy his perverted desires. It is a ridiculous reason, it is nonsensical. How could he value a human life so cheaply? I cannot comprehend it. I am incandescent with rage at the thought of it.
He treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.
If Sarah had died because of an illness, she would have been cared for. We could have looked after her and been with her. If she had died because of an accident, people would have tried to help - there would have been kindness. But there is no comfort to be had, there is no consoling thought in the way Sarah died. In her last hours she was faced with brutality and terror, alone with someone intent on doing her harm. The thought of it is unbearable. I am haunted by the horror of it.
When Sarah went missing we suffered days of agony, not knowing where she was or what had happened to her. Then, when Sarah's burnt remains were found, we spent two terrible days waiting for tests to show how she had died, fearing she had been set alight before she was dead - the thought was appalling.
Burning her body was the final insult, it meant we could never again see her sweet face and never say goodbye.
Our lives will never be the same. We should be a family of five, but now we are four. Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled.
I yearn for her. I remember all the lovely things about her. She was caring, she was funny. She was clever, but she was good at practical things too. She was a beautiful dancer. She was a wonderful daughter. She was always there to listen, to advise, or simply to share with the minutiae of the day. And she was also a strongly principled young woman who knew right from wrong and who lived by those values. She was a good person. She had purpose to her life.
My outlook on life has changed since Sarah died. I am more cautious, I worry more about our other children. I crave the familiarity and security of home - the wider world has lost its appeal. It is too painful to contemplate a future without Sarah, so I just live in the here and now. I think of Sarah all the time, but the mornings and evenings are particularly painful. In the morning I wake up to the awful reality that Sarah is gone. In the evenings, at the time she was abducted, I let out a silent scream: Don't get in the car, Sarah. Don't believe him. Run!
I am repulsed by the thought of Wayne Couzens and what he did to Sarah. I am outraged that he masqueraded as a policeman in order to get what he wanted.
Sarah wanted to get married and have children - now all that has gone. He took her life and stole her future and we will never have the joy of sharing that future with her. Each day dawns and I think Sarah should be here, leading her life and embracing new experiences. She had so many years ahead of her.
I don't know how anyone could be so cruel as to take my daughter's life. What I do know is that Sarah will never be forgotten and is remembered with boundless love.
I cling on to memories of Sarah, I hold them tight to keep them safe. The other night, I dreamt that Sarah appeared at home. In my dream I held her and could feel her physically. Jeremy was there, we were comforting her, saying: 'It's all right Sarah, it's all right'. I would give anything to hold her once more. I hope I dream that dream again.
Jeremy Everard, Sarah's father
There's a photograph of my beautiful daughter on the screen. She had a beautiful mind too. Mr Couzens, please, will you look at me? The impact of what you have done will never end. The horrendous murder of my daughter, Sarah, is in my mind all the time and will be for the rest of my life.
A father wants to look after his children and fix everything, and you have deliberately and with premeditation stopped my ability to do that.
Sarah was handcuffed and unable to defend herself. This preys on my mind all the time.
I can never forgive you for what you have done, for taking Sarah away from us.
You burnt our daughter's body — you further tortured us — so that we could not see her again. We did not know whether you had burnt her alive or dead. You stopped us seeing Sarah for one last time and stopped me from giving my daughter one last kiss goodbye.
Her body fell apart when she was moved. Her brain and neck bones were removed for months by the pathologist and her body was difficult to preserve so we had to use the services of a specialist embalmer to enable a dignified burial.
All my family want is Sarah back with us. No punishment that you receive will ever compare to the pain and torture that you have inflicted on us.
You murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends.
Sarah had so much to look forward to and because of you this is now gone forever. She was saving to buy a house and looking forward to marriage and children. We were looking forward to having grandchildren. We loved being a part of Sarah's world and expected her to have a full and happy life.
The closest we can get to her now is to visit her grave every day
Katie Everard, Sarah's sister
You treated Sarah as if she was nothing. Placed more emphasis on satisfying your sick disgusting perversions than on a life. Her life.
You disposed of my sister's body like it was rubbish. Fly-tipped her like she meant nothing. She meant everything. We couldn't even see her, she was so badly burnt. Her brain was removed from her skull to check for trauma and cause of death - I still don't know if they put her brain back in her head or whether it is lying next to her body in her coffin.
Shards of her kneecap were returned to us to be placed with her body - shards that you knocked when moving her burnt body from the fridge you had used to hide her and conceal the fire.
We are still missing her hyoid bone from her throat, which is being checked to see the force you used to strangle her, to determine how long she may have survived. We know it was broken. Her burnt body still had her necklace and one earring in her ear. The other had fallen from her ear because it had burnt off.
You hear from the police that it takes around two minutes to strangle someone, and around eight to ten seconds for them to lose consciousness.
At first there is a sense of relief at hearing that your sister might only have been aware of what was happening for eight to 10 seconds. But have you put your hands around your neck and tried pushing hard? Eight to 10 seconds now seems a long time.
You used your warrant card to trick my sister into your car. She sat in a car, handcuffed, for hours. What could she have thought she had done wrong? What lies did you tell her? When did she realise that she wasn't going to survive the night?
I'm constantly replaying in my head - did you rape her, then kill her? Did you kill her while raping her? You get small nuggets of information and the thought process starts again. Your semen and blood were found in your car. So this suggests you raped her in the car. You find out you may have used a belt to strangle her. New horrendous images forming.
You stopped to get a Lucozade and water at a petrol station. Was she still alive at this point? Bound in your car? I am horrified by your ability to flit between what you did and normal, everyday actions. Your casual demeanour on CCTV was very upsetting and shocking to see.
We had to go to the flat and pack up Sarah's whole life - washing left hanging up, half-sewn outfits, deliveries waiting to be returned, packages waiting at the door ready to be opened.
All signs of a life waiting to be lived, chores to be done, ready for her to return and continue when she got home. But she never got home because a predator - you - was on the loose. Prowling the streets for hours looking for his prey.
You can't comprehend what you are being told when it happened because it is so horrific. Some sort of sick waking nightmare. You can't imagine anyone could do such a thing.
You are waiting to hear anything from the police. Every bit you get is different. You hear her body has been found. Then you find out she has been burnt. So badly burnt you can't see her. Can't see her again to say goodbye.
The first thought you have in your head after despair and shock is - was she dead before you burnt her? Imagine that even having to be a thought. You find out no soot was found in her lungs, which suggests she was burnt after you murdered her. Imagine being relieved to hear your sister was dead before she was burnt.
I replay it continuously round in my head. What you may have said to her, what she may have said back, when she realised she was in grave danger and was not going to survive.
Hoping my sister was unconscious and drugged, but we know that was not the case - no drugs found in her body, no trauma to the head. Burst blood vessels in her brain from your strangulation, which meant she was conscious when you were doing these unfathomable things to her.
My only hope is that she was in a state of shock and that she wasn't aware of the disgusting things being done to her by a monster. When you forced yourself upon and raped her. When you put your hands around her neck and strangled her.
It disgusts me that you were the last person to touch her perfect body, and violate her in the way you did. The last person to see her alive and speak to her.
How scared she must have been. The last moments of her life not with loved ones, but frightened and fighting for her life. I hate to think of her being so scared and alone and that in her last moments she had no one with her. No kindness. I hate that I wasn't there to save her. To stop you. I find it hard to believe she is not just living her own life and sick at the thought that her last moments on this earth alive were so horrific.
How dare you take her from me? Take away her hopes and dreams. Her life. Children that will never be born. Generations that will never exist. Her future no longer exists. The future I was supposed to live with my sister no longer exists. You have ruined so many lives.
Sarah is the very best person, with so many people who love and cherish her. I want to speak to her and hug her and hear her laugh and go out for dinners and drinks and dancing.
All those conversations we can never have. There were so many things I wanted to share with her - trips abroad, being each other's bridesmaids, meeting her babies and being an auntie, growing old together and seeing who got the most wrinkles. We weren't even halfway through our journey and you took it all away.
I feel like I live in a make-believe world, as if nothing is real. I have to pretend because the thought of not having Sarah forever is too hard to bear. A lifetime now seems a very long time.
I should never have to write a eulogy for or bury my little sister. There is no punishment that you could receive that will ever compare to the pain you have caused us. We can never get Sarah back. The last moments of Sarah's life play on my mind constantly. I am so disgusted and appalled. It terrifies me that you have such disregard for a person's life. You have taken from me the most precious person. And I can never get her back.
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Sarah Everard: Police bodycam footage shows how Wayne Couzens spun desperate web of lies - Daily Mail
Desperate lies of a deranged killer caught on police bodycam: Moment handcuffed Wayne Couzens pretends he gave Sarah alive to a Romanian gang to repay them for 'ripping off' a call girl - as he tries to deny killing her
- Wayne Couzens tried to lie after police raided home over Sarah Everard murder
- He concocted a ridiculous fantasy story involving an Eastern European gang
- Said they had pressured him after he attempted to 'rip off' one of their call girls
- They supposedly threatened to harm his family if he didn't provide a victim
Dramatic police bodycam footage has revealed how Wayne Couzens tried to spin pathetic lies after police raided his Kent home over the murder of Sarah Everard.
The 48-year-old officer could be seen in a seven-minute video clip handcuffed on his sofa being interviewed by arresting officers in his front room in Deal on March 9.
Couzens initially claimed to the detectives that he did not know Miss Everard, before backtracking moments later.
He then concocted a ridiculous fantasy story involving an Eastern European gang who had pressured him after he attempted to 'rip off' one of their call girls.
Couzens was later taken to Wandsworth Police Station where he repeatedly tried to self-harm by banging his head on a sink and running into a wall, and was put under constant watch before appearing in court.
The footage shows Couzens looking reasonably relaxed, telling police that he had got into 'financial s***' and had been 'lent on by, I don't know who they are, an immigrant gang, whatever, and they told me I need to go and pick up girls and give them to them'.
The fictitious traffickers supposedly threatened to harm his family if he did not provide them with a victim, and he felt he had 'no choice' but to snatch Miss Everard.
However, at the start of the video, Couzens suggests he has never met Miss Everard, who was the subject of a major missing persons enquiry at the time.
Couzens is shown a picture of Miss Everard on a mobile phone and is asked: 'Do you know Sarah', but he replies: 'I don't, no.'
Asked if he knew where she is, he says: 'No'. And asked if he knows anything about what happened to her, Couzens then says: 'I know that she went missing up in London somewhere about a week ago or so just from what I got on the news.'
While speaking, his cat is seen walking through the room and jumping onto a shelf. Asked if he had personally met her, Miss Everard says: 'No, not personally, no.'
He is then asked if he had had any 'personal interactions with her', but says: 'Why would I have personal interactions with her?'
Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens is shown a photograph of Sarah Everard on a phone by a detective while being questioned by police at his home in Deal, Kent, in March
The detective says that he can't go into all the evidence, but Couzens replies: 'I'm sat in handcuffs... so you must have something to say that I know her.'
Pressed by the detective, Couzens tells him: 'I am in financial s*** and I've been lent on by, I don't know who they are, an immigrant gang, whatever, and they told me I need to go and pick up girls and give them to them.
'So I said I'll happily… and it then came through that they are going to harm my family, take them away, use them instead. At that point I had no option to try and find somebody.'
He continues: 'There was a couple of names, I was told a place to take her, that's it, that is all I know.'
The detective asks him to tell him about the gang. Couzens says: 'OK, there was a white Sprinter van. They are between sort of Lenham, Maidstone area that I dropped her off.
Wayne Couzens (left) tried to spin pathetic lies over the murder of Sarah Everard (right)
'I still don't know, they just, I don't know, I just parked my car up and then the van come up behind me, flashed me, then they all jumped out and then they [inaudible] this girl.
'They said 'you done good' and I don't know whether my family's going to be alright still. They threatened to take my family away from me, so, at that point, I'm doing what I can to protect my family – that's it.
'So all I know it was, roundabout, we could drive there now, I could show you, roughly, I don't know, Lenham, Maidstone area at all.'
The detective suggests showing him the route on Google Maps, and Couzens says: 'I drove from Ashford to Maidstone. There's a roundabout that breaks up, the first big roundabout you come to.
'You carry straight over to Maidstone, but instead I went round that roundabout and back up another road and at that point I was flashed and pulled over.
The 48-year-old officer could be seen in a seven-minute video clip handcuffed on his sofa being interviewed by arresting officers in his front room in Deal, Kent, on March 9
'Three guys got out, opened my door, opened that door and pushed me out against the front of the car, took the girl, drove off, that's it. They said: 'We'll be in touch.'
'So I'm here, I'm off work with stress because I'm here to protect my family. I want to be here 24/7 for my family. They come for my family… I've got nothing… I've got no choice.'
The detective says he will go back over the route with Couzens, but asks him how the supposed gang contacted him or he contacted them.
Couzens says: 'I tried to f*** over on one of their call girls and tried to rip her off, so she's told them and they've got me. They just tell me be here, be here, so Hotel Burstin in Folkestone, be here.
'So I turned up. But I've got no mobile number, and they have [sic] got my mobile number – they're obviously outside watching, following… I just, honestly.
Couzens' car journey around London as he cruised to find a woman to abduct, rape and murder
'They'll come outside, so they'll be outside here, then they'll say right, you'll be in Folkestone this time, or you're going to be in Ashford this time. That's it.
'There's no links, telephone numbers, I'm completely on my own, but at the same time being threatened. It had Romanian plates on the van, white Mercedes Sprinter-type van.'
When pressed as to where Sarah Everard was, he said repeatedly that he did not know where she was and that 'if I could do something to get her back right this minute, I would', but at the same time he said 'I'll do it again tomorrow if it meant saving my family... these guys meant business.'
He claimed he had evidence of that communication in his mobile phone, but when officers examined it they found it had been wiped clean by Couzens.
At the police station, Couzens declined to provide samples of his DNA, saying it was on advice from his solicitor.
And when asked how he had sustained 'visible scratch marks to his head' he blamed them on his dog.
Sarah Everard's mother Susan reads a victim impact statement at the Old Bailey today
The video of his interview was released as Couzens was branded 'a monster' in court by Miss Everard's family after he abused Covid-19 lockdown regulations to kidnap her in a fake arrest then rape and strangle her.
Couzens used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to snatch Miss Everard as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham, South London, on the evening of March 3.
The firearms officer, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift at the American embassy that morning, drove to a secluded rural area near Dover in Kent, where he parked up and raped Miss Everard.
The marketing executive, who lived in Brixton, south London, had been strangled with Couzens' police belt by 2.30am the following morning.
Married Couzens burned her body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood, near Ashford, Kent, before dumping the remains in a nearby pond.
Just days later, amid extensive publicity about Ms Everard's disappearance, he took his family on a day out to the woods, allowing his two children to play close by.
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Labour conference: Starmer outperforms Johnson in first in-person conference speech as leader, according to Sky News poll - Sky News
Sir Keir Starmer has outperformed Boris Johnson in his first in-person conference speech as Labour leader, according to an exclusive poll for Sky News.
The poll by Opinium, conducted after the speech, found 63% of respondents agreed with what Sir Keir had to say, 57% said he came across as strong, 62% say it showed him as competent and 68% said it shows he cares about ordinary people.
Opinium surveyed 1,330 people online this afternoon, showing them excerpts of the speech before asking them to vote.
The numbers outperform Mr Johnson's first conference speech in 2019.
After being shown extracts of that speech, 51% agreed with what he had to say, 52% said it showed he was strong, 46% said competent and 37% said it showed him as caring about ordinary people.
Opinium showed a video of Mr Johnson's speech to voters online a few weeks ago to gauge opinion on it, not at the time the speech was given. The exercise will be repeated with Mr Johnson's speech in Manchester conference next week.
The findings will please Sir Keir's office since it suggests the speech will help to tackle the negative public perceptions about the Labour leader evident before the conference in Brighton.
The survey asked about the behaviour of the hecklers and 52% said they thought it was unacceptable, with 37% believing it was acceptable.
A total of 47% of respondents said they are generally more on Sir Keir's side from what they have seen or heard and 18% said they are more on the side of the hecklers.
Among Labour voters, 62% were more on the side of Starmer, 16% were more supportive of the hecklers.
Chris Curtis, senior research manager at Opinium, said: "Despite the heckling, Starmer will be happy with how his speech has gone down with the public.
"It's normal for polling like this to tend to produce positive results because respondents see the leaders putting their arguments across unopposed.
"However, when we look at the comparisons to previous years, we can see how Starmer's performance has gone down better than either Corbyn or Johnson's first conference speeches.
"But we will have to wait a few days to see whether this initial positive response is enough to make voters more likely to choose the Labour Party in the polls."
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Ex-police officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard faces sentence - The Independent
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2021-09-29 14:56:40Z
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Labour conference: Keir Starmer bats away hecklers as he gets personal during speech - Sky News
Sir Keir Starmer batted away hecklers during a mammoth speech in which he used his personal experiences to show off his human side as he announced a key climate change policy.
Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, introduced Sir Keir before his conference speech by thanking the Labour leader for helping prosecute his murderers when he was a barrister.
During the 90-minute speech, which was his first in-person conference address since he became leader, he hit out at the government, referenced his parents throughout and announced a plan to retrofit millions of homes.
Following five days of ups and downs in Brighton, including successfully getting a new way of voting for a leader through, he put Labour forward as the next party to lead the country.
But he was also heckled by those who may be bigger fans of his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, who has criticised Sir Keir at fringe events this week.
However, he brushed them away by saying, "shouting slogans or changing lives, conference?" - to which he got cheers from the audience.
Among those who heckled Sir Keir during his speech was former Big Brother contestant Carole Vincent from east London, who told Sky News she had not planned to interrupt the Labour leader's keynote address but she was prompted about he delivered "a speech which is full of nothing really."
"I saw it as standing up in a principled manner against what he was saying, because he wasn't saying 'we are going to give a £15 minimum wage'," Ms Vincent added, noting that she suspects she might no longer be a Labour member after Wednesday.
Speaking after the party leader's speech, a Labour spokesperson said "only a small number of people" were heckling and that this "did not knock [Sir Keir] off his stride".
"They didn't distract from the message," the spokesperson added.
Sir Keir spoke of not being from a privileged background, of his father being a tool maker in a factory and his mum being a nurse in the NHS and her getting a rare arthritic disease for which he could "hardly convey to you the emotion of seeing your mum in that condition".
For a leader who has often been accused of failing to show off his personality and any emotion, it appeared important for Sir Keir to connect on an emotional level with Labour members, who listened intently.
During the more than 7,000 word speech, he also spoke of being a lawyer and chief prosecutor and how that has helped his approach to politics.
John and Penny Clough, the parents of murdered nurse Jane Clough, were in the front row of the audience and Sir Keir told of them coming to him to get justice for her and how they changed the law - and how crime "will always be a Labour issue".
Sir Keir said Labour would fast-track rape and serious sexual assault cases and toughen sentences for rapists, stalkers and domestic abusers.
Recognising he came into politics "late in life", the Labour leader said he was not a career politician and said he was nothing like Boris Johnson, who he said was waging war on traffic cones while he was prosecuting Stephen Lawrence's murderers.
He also said in 2010 he was helping put terrorists behind bars while Mr Johnson was defending the right not to wear a cycle helmet.
"It's easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people, but I don't think Boris Johnson is a bad man, I think he is a trivial man," he said.
"I think he's a showman with nothing left to show, I think he's a trickster who has performed his one trick."
During his speech, Sir Keir recognised Labour's failure under Mr Corbyn to defeat the Conservatives, despite not referencing the former party leader by name, and praised the party activists who had saved it from "obliteration" in the landslide 2019 election defeat.
"I can see the ways in which we can remake this nation and that's what we get to do when we win," Sir Keir told the conference hall.
The question for many now will be whether Sir Keir's speech can translate into improved perceptions of his leadership.
He promised Labour will "always fund the NHS properly" and would shift the priority of the health service away from emergency care to prevention, including funding mental health as much as physical health.
"Labour will guarantee that support will be available in less than a month," he said.
That would include recruiting 8,500 more mental health professionals and ensuring every school has specialist support and communities have mental health hubs.
Another of the Labour leader's key promises is on education and Sir Keir referenced a famous Tony Blair slogan ("education, education, education") as he said: "Education is so important I am tempted to say it three times."
He said Labour will launch the most ambitious school improvement plan, including ensuring children leave school with good qualifications and who are ready to work.
Theatre, drama and music will not be allowed to collapse, he said, as he mentioned he had music lessons with Fatboy Slim at school.
On the economy, Sir Keir said Labour would support small businesses and invest a minimum of 3% of GDP in science and research and development.
He said the finances inherited from the Conservatives "will need serious repair work" but the approach to taxation will be governed by taxpayers getting the best value for money.
Sir Keir's shadow cabinet ministers have announced a raft of new policies this week and he added to that by saying climate change - which got a big clap - would be tackled by retrofitting 19 million homes over a decade to save families more than £400 a year on energy bills, with a £6bn a year investment.
And he hit out at Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, saying the SNP and the Tories "exploit the constitutional divide".
After his speech, the Labour leader was joined by his wife, Victoria, on stage and they left the conference hall to the Fatboy Slim song "Right here, right now" - plus a standing ovation.
As a child, the Labour leader had music classes at school with the future DJ.
Members of Sir Keir's shadow cabinet have reacted positively to the Labour leader's speech.
"I thought it was the finest speech from a Labour leader, I think, in 10 years," Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told Sky News.
And shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard described Sir Keir Starmer's speech as a "real turning point for the party".
And shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard described Sir Keir Starmer's speech as a "real turning point for the party".
But Conservative Party Chairman Oliver Dowden said "it is clear Keir Starmer's party is more divided than ever and has no plan".
Following his keynote address, Sir Keir was visiting party staff who had worked at the conference in Brighton to thank them for their efforts, a Labour spokesperson said.
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