Why wasn't Wayne Couzens stopped?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today, the long-awaited Home Office-commissioned Angiolini Inquiry into Wayne Couzens has been published. Couzens had kidnapped, raped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard three years ago. The findings were chilling, revealing that numerous opportunities to stop Couzens throughout his policing career were missed. Katy Balls talks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman about where politicians failed Sarah Everard.

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0:15.3	Hello and welcome to coffee-house shots
0:20.4	the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James
0:24.4	Hill and Isabel Hardman. James today we've had an independent review's
0:28.8	conclusion when it comes to the murderer of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
0:34.0	Can you tell us the main takeaways from the report?
0:37.0	Yes, of course.
0:38.0	Well, we all remember the horrific kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard
0:42.0	nearly three years ago. And what we had today was the first of a three-stage process whereby
0:47.8	Dame Elish Angelini did a update on how it's all going and sort of doing a 347 page report into the various failures of different police forces.
0:58.5	And really what's, I think the main conclusion is, first of all Wayne Cousins
1:02.5	should never have been a serving police officer that's clear and if you look at the
1:06.0	report what comes across is just how many tragic cases they were where
1:10.1	they could have stopped him beforehand.
1:12.0	The report concluded there were eight times.
1:13.7	He was reported to the police across three different police forces.
1:17.5	He was working for Kent police, the civil nuclear constabiary, and then the Metropolitan Police,
1:22.0	all in which culminated in the murder of
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