Wayne Couzens, the former police officer who murdered Sarah Everard, deserves “decades in jail”, but his sentence is excessive, his lawyer has said.
The former PC was handed a whole-life term last year for the rape and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard after he abducted her in south London on March 3 2021.
It was the first time the sentence had been imposed for a single murder of an adult not committed in the course of a terror attack.
On Wednesday, senior judges heard challenges or appeals to the prison sentences of five killers, including the whole-life terms of Couzens and double murderer Ian Stewart.
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