03/11/2021 10:29 AM
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Sarah Everard
, marketing executive, the last captured camera ringing of a house at 21.30 on Wednesday of last week.
She was walking alone down a street near Clapham, a suburb on the southern outskirts of London.
They would have found her this Thursday, in a forest in Kent, dead.
His murderer was also caught on a security camera - and it would be a Scotland Yard cop.
The case shocks the United Kingdom, where this type of death is a rarity, but above all it is surprising that the suspect is a police officer.
And that aroused
utter perplexity.
In a statement on TV,
Dame
Cressida Dick
, director of the London Metropolitan Police, confirmed that officers who searched an area near Ashford, in Kent, southeast of London, "found, very sadly, what appears to be human remains. ".
Now it remains to be determined if it is Sarah.
And forensic investigations can take days.
The police work at the place where the remains were found.
Photo: AFP
Cressida Dick said the arrest of an on-duty Metropolitan Police (Met) officer on suspicion of murder had "sent
waves of shock
and anger through the public and across the Met."
"I speak on behalf of all my colleagues at the Met when I say that we are completely shocked by this terrible news," he added.
"Our job is to patrol the streets and protect the people."
Hundreds of officers have been recruited to assist with the investigation as searches continue in South London and Kent.
Sarah Everard, 33 years old.
Photo: AFP
As reported by the BBC on Thursday morning, Dame Cressida assured that "Sarah's disappearance in these horrible and perverse circumstances is the worst nightmare of any family.
Cressida alludes to the fact that the woman, who had gone to visit a friend, was returning home alone, walking down the street, when on her way she met someone who kidnapped and killed her.
"I know Londoners will want to know that fortunately it is incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets," said the police chief.
"But I fully understand that despite this, women in London and the general public, particularly those in the area where Sarah disappeared,
will be concerned
and may feel scared."
Dick could not confirm whether the remains found in the Ashford Forest were those of the missing woman, adding that identification may take "considerable time."
The suspect
The police arrested one of their own officers for the murder of Sarah Everard, when they detected him thanks to the surveillance camera of a collective.
The police officer identified as Wayne Couzens is believed to have used her police warrant card to lure her to his car.
Sarah Everard last caught on security camera.
Photo: AFP
Scotland Yard is also said to be investigating whether Couzens used current Covid-19 lockdown rules to detain the woman as she walked to Brixton from her friend's house in Clapham on March 3.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "shocked and deeply saddened by the progress in the Sarah Everard investigation," adding that "we must work quickly to find all the answers to this horrible crime."
Interior Minister Priti Patel added that "every woman should feel safe to walk our streets without fear of harassment or violence."
Couzens was arrested late on March 9, six days after Everard disappeared "into thin air."
More than 20 officers raided the suspect's home in Kent.
Undated photo of the missing executive, Sarah Everard.
Photo: AFP
Police found "the" clue they needed in camera footage of a bus that passed Sarah as she walked toward Brixton, according to the Daily Telegraph.
That track was Couzens' car.
A source told MailOnline: "If they identified her car, they will have been able to see the journey she took using the London and UK motorway camera networks. And if she was in the car, they must have pictures of him with her." .
On Tuesday night, the police "invaded" Wayne Couzens' home.
Two dozen officers hiding around the corner ran onto the property.
A shirtless Couzens was led out of the house in handcuffs.
Couzens' house is sealed.
No one can enter.
Photo: AFP
His 38-year-old Ukrainian wife Elena, who works as a laboratory director, was also delayed.
The couple's home is now sealed.
No one can enter.
Their friends have described them as a "very loving couple" with two children.
They met online about 12 years ago.
Scotland Yard insisted the suspect was off duty at the time of Sarah's disappearance.
But this Thursday, it is reported that Couzens, an armed diplomatic protection officer, worked a shift from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. guarding the United States embassy near the Battersea power station, less than three miles from where he was seen. Everard for the last time at 9:30 pm
The Sun quoted a police source as saying: "The working hypothesis is that the suspect saw Sarah on the street for the first time and
abducted her
.
"
A source told The Times that detectives have yet to find a link between the suspect and his alleged victim.
Investigators are checking phones, computers, and social media.
The main hypothesis is that they were not known.
Clarín newsroom, with information from local British media
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