Police missed the chance to stop Wayne Couzens after identifying him as a suspected sex offender six years before he murdered Sarah Everard, a report has found.
A police sergeant who had worked in the same station as Couzens, and knew his brother, shut the case without speaking to him, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said. The officer named as PS X was cleared of misconduct by his force last month.
Couzens was reported to Kent Police driving naked from the waist down in 2015. Days later PS X accessed police records for Couzens, which gave details of his past service on the force.
