Wayne Couzens, the former Metropolitan police officer convicted of killing Sarah Everard, has appeared in court via video link to face two further charges of flashing offences.
The alleged incidents of indecent exposure are said to have taken place in Dover, Kent, in June 2015 and Deal, Kent, in November 2020.
Couzens, 49, is serving a whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, in March 2021, when he was a serving officer.
At a pre-trial hearing at Westminster magistrates court, Couzens appeared via video link from Frankland high security prison in County Durham, dressed in a prison-issue grey sweatshirt.
He spoke to confirm his name and date of birth and gave no indication of pleas to either of the charges.
The judge, the deputy chief magistrate Tan Ikram, sent the case to the Old Bailey on 3 October where it will be heard alongside four other charges of flashing made against Couzens.
The charges, which followed an investigation by the Metropolitan police, state he allegedly “intentionally exposed his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distress”.
They came after a referral of evidence from his ex-employer, the Met police.
Couzens has already appeared in court charged with the four other flashing incidents, before Everard’s death. Those incidents allegedly took place in Swanley, Kent between 22 January and 1 February; between 30 January and 6 February; on 14 February; and on 27 February.
The former garage mechanic, who first joined the Civil Nuclear constabulary before transferring to the Met in 2018, received a rare whole-life term because his crimes involved him abusing his position as a police officer.
Everard had been visiting a friend on the evening of 3 March 2021 near Clapham Common, south London, when she decided to walk back to her Brixton home shortly after 9pm.
At the time of his arrest, Couzens was serving in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection unit. He lived in Deal, Kent.
Everard’s remains were recovered from woodland near Ashford in Kent, about 20 miles west of Couzens’s home, a week after she disappeared. A postmortem showed she had died from compression of the neck.
The trial judge who passed the sentence said the crimes were as serious as terrorism because of the abuse of his role as a police officer, with Couzens likely to have used Covid powers to trick Everard into a car, used his police warrant card and handcuffs to restrain her and his police belt to strangle her.
Couzens is expected to die in prison after he lost his bid to reduce his sentence at the court of appeal.
Couzens’s lawyers argued he deserved “decades in jail” but that a life sentence was excessive. In a July ruling, the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, and four other judges refused to lower Couzens’s sentence.
