Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A police offer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard.
Pc Wayne Couzens, 48, appeared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday (June 8). The court heard Couzens accepted responsibility for the killing of Ms Everard but was not asked to enter a plea to a charge of murder.
Ms Everard, 33, went missing as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on March 3. A major police investigation was launched and her body was found a week later in woodland in Kent.
Couzens pleaded guilty to kidnapping Ms Everard “unlawfully and by force or fraud” on March 3. He also pleaded guilty to a second charge of rape between March 2 and 10.
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