Sarah Everard's grieving father demanded that her killer Wayne Couzens looked at him in court.
Couzens abducted, raped, and killed the 33-year-old marketing executive in March of this year before burning her body and dumping it in Kent woodland, having used his position as a police officer to get her into his car, Express reports.
During sentencing at the Old Bailey on September 30, the court heard that Couzens convinced Everard to get into her car as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham Common, south London by claiming that she had breached the Covid-19 lockdown.
On Thursday, September 30, Couzens was sentenced to life in prison for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Everard.
CCTV footage below shows the moment Couzens stopped Everard:He told the murderer: "I can never forgive you for what you have done, for taking Sarah away from us. You burnt our daughter's body - you further tortured us - so that we could not see her again."
Express reports that the former police officer appeared to shake in the court.
Everard's father continued: "You murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends.
"Sarah had so much to look forward to and because of you this has now gone forever."
Katie Everard, Sarah's older sister, told Couzens to "please look at me" as she described how he "disposed of my sister's body like it was rubbish".
The Crown Prosecution Service revealed that the killer officer had been working Covid patrol shifts in January and "was therefore aware of the regulations and what language to use to those who may have breached them".
Tom Little QC told the court on Wednesday, September 29: "The fact she had been to a friend's house for dinner at the height of the early 2021 lockdown made her more vulnerable to, and/or more likely to, submit to an accusation that she had acted in breach of the regulations in some way."
In CCTV footage of Couzens' encounter with Everard, he could be seen touching his belt and holding up his hand to show her something, which is speculated to have been his warrant card.
Couzens received a life sentence after the judge said he abused his position as a police officer to carry out the crime.
