Wayne Couzens is appealing against the decision to lock him up for the rest of his life for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard
(Picture: Met Police )Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens will fight to overturn his whole life prison term in May alongside some of Britain’s most notorious murderers.
The former Met PC is appealing against the decision to lock him up for the rest of his life for the kidnap, rape, and murder of 33-year-old Ms Everard in March last year.
It was revealed on Friday that the case will be heard by a special panel of judges, led by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett of Maldon, on May 4 and 5.
The court is also due to hear Attorney General Suella Braverman’s referral that the sentences of Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes were “unduly lenient”.
Tustin, 32, murdered her six-year-old stepson Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at her home in Solihull, after a shocking period of torture and abuse, while the boy’s father, Hughes, 29, was convicted of manslaughter.
Tustin was jailed in December last year for life with a minimum term of 29 years, while Hughes, who is appealing his sentence, was jailed for 24 years.
Also represented at the special hearing is Ian Stewart, who received a whole life order in February for the murder of his wife.
The 61-year-old, from Cambridgeshire, killed Diane Stewart and passed off her death as epilepsy-related.
He was caught for that killing thanks to medical evidence, and he was also convicted of killing children’s author Helen Bailey in 2016.
Stewart, like Couzens, is seeking to overturn his whole life sentence.
The final case to be assessed is Jordan Monaghan, a Blackburn man who murdered his two children and girlfriend.
Monaghan claimed the deaths of Ruby, just 24 days old, and Logan, aged 21 months, were down to natural causes. He then killed his partner Evie Adams.
The Attorney General has referred his case as “unduly lenient”.
The Court of Appeal said the special hearing will look at the “imposition of whole life orders” and is expected to last a day and a half.
