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How events unfolded in Sarah Everard’s killing as her murderer is sentenced to life without parole

 

The day Everard goes missing

– March 3: 4:45 p.m.: Couzens collects the hire car.

– 9 p.m.: Everard leaves her friend’s house in Clapham Junction in south London to walk about 2.5 miles home.

– 9:13 p.m.: She phones her boyfriend for just over 14 minutes.

– 9:15 p.m.: Everard is captured alone on CCTV.

– 9:35 p.m.: A bus camera captures two figures beside a white Vauxhall Astra parked on the sidewalk with hazard lights flashing.

– 9:38 p.m.: Another bus camera captures the same vehicle with the two front car doors open.

– 11:38 p.m.: Couzens transfers Everard to his own car in Dover and drives towards a secluded rural area where she is raped and murdered.

The aftermath

– 2:31 a.m.: Having transferred Everard to his own car, a Seat, Couzens stops at a service station in Dover to buy drinks. Everard is dead by this point.

– 3:21 a.m.: The car passes a CCTV camera near Hoad’s Wood, where Everard’s body is dumped. He visits the site twice, leaving just before dawn.

– 8:30 a.m.: The hire car is returned.

Police alerted

– March 4: Everard’s boyfriend Josh Lowth reports her missing.

– March 5: The case is escalated and the Specialist Crime Unit becomes involved.

Covering his tracks

– March 5: Couzens, due to be off work until March 8, tells his employer he is suffering with stress. He buys gas and burns Everard’s body and possessions inside a fridge at Hoad’s Wood. He transfers the remains to a nearby pond in two green rubble bags.

– March 6: He emails his supervisor to say he no longer wants to carry a firearm.

– March 7: Couzens takes his wife and children on a family trip to the woods where he burned Everard’s body.

– March 8: The officer is due to return to work but reports in sick.

– March 9: Couzens’ phone is wiped of all data.

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