BBC to release two-part series about murder of Sarah Everard

• The BBC is releasing a drama series about the 2021 murder of Sarah Everard by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens.
• Everard was abducted, raped, and killed by Couzens while she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London.
• The series, approved by Everard's family, will be handled “sensitively and respectfully” and will “examine the circumstances that allowed a sexual offender to become, and remain, a Metropolitan Police officer”.
• Scripted by Bafta-winning writer Jeff Pope, the drama will explore the impact of these failings on public confidence in policing and the wider issue of violence against women and girls.
• The BBC says the series will “help to ensure that the issues that led to Sarah Everard’s murder remain in the public consciousness”, holding the police accountable and seeking lessons from the tragedy.

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BBC making ‘respectful’ drama about murder of Sarah Everard