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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Wayne Couzens could have been identified as a sex offender in 2015, report says

Wayne Couzens
A car registered to Wayne Couzens was reported to Kent police in 2015. Witnesses said a man inside was naked from the waist down. Photograph: Metropolitan police

Wayne Couzens escaped being identified as a sex offender six years before he murdered Sarah Everard, despite police having the registration of a car he had allegedly used to flash passersby, as well as his name and address, an official report has revealed.

The full extent of Kent police’s bungling of their investigation, which could have caught Couzens, can only now be reported for the first time.

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