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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.
A bearded Couzens, wearing a grey jumper, appeared by video-link from HMP Frankland at the start of the hearing for his appeal against his whole-life term. Members of Ms Everard’s family were present in the Royal Courts of Justice as the his appeal was discussed.
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Jim Sturman QC, for Couzens, said: “Mr Couzens accepts that his crimes are abhorrent and nothing I say in any way is intended to minimise them or to minimise the impact of these crimes on Sarah Everard’s family and huge circle of friends.” He told the court that it was accepted that Couzens deserved “decades in jail” but argued a whole-life term was excessive.
Mr Sturman added: “The combination of his remorse and his guilty pleas… should balance out that aggravating factor which clearly exists, of him being a police officer, albeit off-duty in half uniform.” The barrister told the court that Couzens was unique out of the 64 people currently serving whole life orders.
He said in written submissions: “Whilst this may well be considered by the public and the court to be a case of
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