Killer cop whines about mental health after brutally abducting, raping and murdering woman: video
A killer cop moaned about his mental health and being in a “dark place” after he was hauled in for questioning in the brutal abduction, rape and murder of a woman in South London, according to newly released interrogation video.
In the video, first reported by The Sun, Wayne Couzens squirms in his seat — but ignores officers’ questions — when they show him a picture of Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old marketing consultant Couzens snatched off the street in South London in 2021.
A detective asked him how he was feeling at the moment — to which Couzens replied, “I’m in a dark place.”
The footage — recorded 27 hours after Couzens tried to harm himself in custody — was included in the BBC documentary “Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice,” which airs on March 5.
Couzens, formerly of the Metropolitan Police Service, was sentenced in 2021 to life behind bars without parole for killing Everard.
He’d just worked an overnight shift at the US Embassy in London when he grabbed Everard as she walked home on March 3, 2021, claiming she broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
He handcuffed her, put her in back of a rental car and later moved her to his personal car. Then he raped and strangled her before burning her body.
Cops reviewed security footage and tracked Couzens via the rental car details.
They arrested him six days after the killing, just minutes after he deleted his phone data.
Couzens’ attorney, Jim Sturma, claimed after the trial that the former firearms officer was “ashamed by what he has done.”
“No right-minded person reading the papers or listening to the statements read out by the Everard family could feel anything other than revulsion for what he did,” the defense attorney admitted.
“He doesn’t seek to make excuses for anything he did, he is filled with self-loathing and abject shame, and he should be.”
Judge Adrian Fulford threw the book at him during the sentencing, saying there was a “palpable need” for Couzens to spend the rest of his life in prison because he’d abused his authority and committed “devastating, tragic and wholly brutal” crimes.
“Sarah Everard was a wholly blameless victim of a grotesquely executed series of offenses,” he told Couzens, a married father of two.
“The misuse of a police officer’s role such as occurred in this case in order to kidnap, rape and murder a lone victim is of equal seriousness as a murder for the purpose of advancing a political, religious ideological cause.”
