Never-before-seen photographs of Sarah Everard have been released by her family Sarah Everard was just walking home. The marketing executive was once a smiling university student. She was once someone who lounged by the swimming pool at the Brockwell Lido, close to where she lived in south London’s Brixton. But on March 3, 2021, aged 33, she was abducted, raped and murdered by Wayne Couzens, a Metropolitan Police officer, as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham.
But when Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin was informed by colleagues that Couzens was the chief suspect in the Everard case, his name meant ‘nothing’ to her. Everard at her graduation She was killed three years ago ‘So immediately we start researching the name, also the phone number and the address that had been given when he’d hired the car,’ she said on Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice, which will air on BBC One tomorrow evening. Investigators quickly filled the gaps.