Wayne Couzens is destined to die in prison after failing in his bid to reduce his sentence at the Court of Appeal.
Former police officer Couzens, 49, was handed a whole life term last year for the rape and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, the first time the sentence had been imposed for a single murder of an adult not committed in the course of a terror attack. Couzens was serving as a Metropolitan Police Officer when he 'fake arrested' the marketing executive to kidnap her as she walked home from a friend's house through Clapham, South London.
Couzens pleaded guilty to the kidnap, rape and murder of Everard after he was arrested at his home address on 9 March last year, before her body was found in a woodland stream close to an abandoned leisure centre near Ashford. In May, senior judges heard challenges or appeals against the whole-life prison sentence imposed on Couzens.
