The family of Sarah Everard have paid tribute to the "wonderful" young woman who was murdered by a former Met Police officer one year ago today.
The 33-year-old former Durham University student was walking home in south London on March 3 last year when she was kidnapped by Wayne Couzens under the guise of an arrest. Her body was found a week later in a wood in Kent.
Couzens was sentenced to a whole-life prison term for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
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Now, on the first anniversary of her death, Sarah Everard’s family have released a statement through the Met Police speaking of their devastating loss.
The family said: “It is a year since Sarah died and we remember her today, as every day, with all our love.
"Our lives have changed forever and we live with the sadness of our loss.
"Sarah was wonderful and we miss her all the time.
“Over the past year, we have been overwhelmed with the kindness shown to us, not just by family and friends, but by the wider public.
"We are immensely grateful to everyone for their support, it has meant such a lot to us and has comforted us through this terrible time.
“Sadly, Sarah is not the only woman to have lost her life recently in violent circumstances and we would like to extend our deepest sympathy to other families who are also grieving.”
In the year since Sarah's appalling murder, many other women have been killed by men in the UK, including primary school teacher Sabina Nessa and sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.
