Wayne Couzens is charged with four counts of indecent exposure in January and February last year
Wayne Couzens is charged with FOUR counts of indecent exposure including flashing a worker at a McDonald’s Kent drive-thru – just days before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard
Wayne Couzens allegedly flashed genitals between January and February, 2021The 49-year-old was said to have presented himself to victims in Swanley in KentThe delayed new charges will raise questions over the Met’s handling of the caseCouzens was jailed for abduction, rape and murder of Ms Everard in March 2021
Couzens is charged with ‘exposing his genitals intending that someone would see’:
Between 22 January 2021 and 1 February 2021 intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distressBetween 30 January 2021 and 6 February 2021 intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distressOn 14 February 2021 intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distressOn 27 February 2021 intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distress
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Wayne Couzens has been charged with four counts of indecent exposure just days before he raped and murdered Sarah Everard.
The depraved killer was said to have flashed his genitals between January and February last year when he was a serving Metropolitan Police officer.
The 49-year-old allegedly presented himself to his victims in Swanley, Kent, with two instances at a McDonald’s drive through.
The new charges, over a year after Ms Everard was snatched, will raise yet more questions over the Met Police’s handling of the case against its former officer.
Couzens is serving a whole-life sentence for the abduction, rape and murder of Ms Everard on March 3, 2021.
He drove to Clapham in London where he showed Miss Everard his warrant card to force her into his car as part of a fake Covid arrest.
He then used his Met-issued equipment to handcuff the marketing executive before strangling her with his police belt.
Two of the alleged flashing incidents were said to have taken place at a McDonald’s drive through in Swanley.
Police were told of the allegations on February 28 although the alleged incidents took place earlier that month.
Wayne Couzens has been charged with four counts of indecent exposure just days before he raped and murdered Sarah Everard
The depraved killer was said to have flashed his genitals between January and February last year when he was a serving Metropolitan Police officer
The Met said the McDonald’s allegations were ‘allocated for investigation’ but ‘by the time of Sarah’s abduction it was not concluded’.
It referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct, which is investigating the force’s alleged failure to investigate.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: ‘Following a referral of evidence by the Metropolitan Police, the CPS has authorised four charges of indecent exposure against Wayne Couzens.
‘The four alleged offences took place between January and February 2021. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 13 April.’
Wayne Couzens will die in jail serving whole life sentence for killing Miss Everard in March 2021
Couzens, 48, carried out a fake Covid arrest to trap Miss Everard inside his hire car
How events in the Sarah Everard case unfolded
2015: Kent Police allegedly fail to investigate an indecent exposure incident linked to Wayne Couzens.September 2018: Couzens transfers to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC).2019: Couzens and his wife buy a small area of woodland off Fridd Lane in Ashford, Kent.February 2019: The Pc joins a response team covering the Bromley area of south London, having initially served in a Safer Neighbourhood Team.February 2020: He moves to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command to patrol diplomatic premises, mainly embassies.February 2021: The 48-year-old is linked to two allegations of indecent exposure in London, which it is claimed Scotland Yard failed to investigate.February 28: Couzens books a white Vauxhall Astra from a car hire firm in Dover, Kent, using his personal details and bank card. He also purchases a roll of self-adhesive film advertised as a carpet protector on Amazon.March 2: 7pm – Couzens starts a 12-hour shift at his base in West Brompton, west London.March 3: On the day of her disappearance, Sarah Everard visits a friend in the Clapham Junction area and uses her bank card to buy a bottle of wine in Sainsbury’s in Brixton Hill, south London, on her way.4.45pm – Couzens collects the hire car.9pm – Ms Everard leaves to walk home, some 2.5 miles away.9.13pm – She calls her boyfriend for a little over 14 minutes.9.15pm – Ms Everard is captured alone on CCTV at the junction of Bowood Road and the South Circular.9.28pm – The next sighting is on Cavendish Road and she is still alone.9.32pm – Ms Everard is caught on the camera on a marked police car.9.35pm – A bus camera captures two figures on Poynders Road standing beside a white Vauxhall Astra parked on the pavement with hazard lights flashing.9.38pm – Another bus camera captures the same vehicle with the two front car doors open.- March 4: 1am – Having travelled out of London, the car is in the Tilmanstone area of Kent.8.30am – Couzens returns the hire car used in the abduction.8.10pm – Ms Everard is reported missing by her boyfriend, Josh Lowth.March 5: The case is escalated and the Specialist Crime Unit becomes involved. Couzens, who is due to be off until March 8, reports to work that he is suffering with stress.2pm – He buys two green rubble bags for £9.94 at B&Q in Dover.March 6: Couzens emails his supervisor that he no longer wants to carry a firearm. He orders a tarpaulin and a bungee cargo net on Amazon which are shipped to him the next day.March 8: The officer reports in sick on the day he is due to return to work.March 9: 7.11pm – Couzens’ phone is wiped of all data.7.50pm – Couzens is arrested at his home in Deal, Kent. In a brief interview, he tells a story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang.March 10: At around 4.45pm, a body is discovered in a wooded area in Ashford, Kent, and later formally identified by dental records. It is around 100 metres from land owned by Couzens.March 11: Couzens answers “no comment” in formal interviews.March 12: 8.45pm: Couzens is charged.July 9: Couzens pleads guilty to murder when he appears at the Old Bailey by video link from Belmarsh high security jail. September 29: Couzens faces a possible whole life order when he is sentenced.
