Here is 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.
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