GUILTY UK - Sarah Everard, 33, London, Clapham Common area, 3 Mar 2021 *Life sentence* #16

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10:15am
Killing wasn't premeditated, insists defence


Jim Sturman QC said that the fact Couzens never tried to hide his tracks in terms of the hire car, buying things on his cards and not concealing his face when entering shops meant this was not a premeditated murder.

This, the defence argues, is a reason not to send the killer to prison for the rest of his life.
 
MancGuy Uk said:
what I can not stop thinking about the moment she realised in the car that this was not an arrest they are not going to a police station all of sudden the situation she is in is a dangerous one would he have listen to her pleas for the 80 mile journey did he enjoy her being scared? what happened when they changed vehicles?
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So many unanswered unknowns, I can't stop thinking about all these moments and how it must have been for her. How her family must replay these unknowns is untenable.
 
Moll said:
'A cunning defendant would have spent weeks casing a web of lies'
Mr Sturman continued that "a cunning defendant would have spent weeks casting a web of lies".

But he insists his client did not that, sparing the Everard family from the "terrible" experience of "having to sit through nonsense".

He added that without a trial due to a guilty plea, the family were not subjected to "lies that are intended to bamboozle the jury, lies about the sexual element of the attack".

Mr Sturman added that Couzens' "special knowledge of a police officer - like Levi Bellfield did - spin a wicked defence that would have piled humiliation on the Everard family and six weeks of terror during a trial".
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He's pleaded Guilty because he knows his position is hopeless. He'd be able to evidence no previous interaction with her, and would have to go with some ludicrous story that she'd quite happily got in the car for sex with a complete stranger who waved her down, and instead of simply going back to her flat which would be the obvious option, it required an 80 mile journey. Which would be believed by no one after he came out with his "immigrant gang" story.
 
10:15am
Killing wasn't premeditated, insists defence


Jim Sturman QC said that the fact Couzens never tried to hide his tracks in terms of the hire car, buying things on his cards and not concealing his face when entering shops meant this was not a premeditated murder.

This, the defence argues, is a reason not to send the killer to prison for the rest of his life.
 
10:17am
Defence on the relevance of police officer status


The relevance of Couzens' being a police officer has been flipped by the defence.

Jim Sturman QC says that the killing of a police officer on duty could be seen as a whole-life term crime, but not necessarily the killing by a police officer on duty.
 
infinit said:
He's pleaded Guilty because he knows his position is hopeless. He'd be able to evidence no previous interaction with her, and would have to go with some ludicrous story that she'd quite happily got in the car for sex with a complete stranger who waved her down, and instead of simply going back to her flat which would be the obvious option, it required an 80 mile journey. Which would be believed by no one after he came out with his "immigrant gang" story.
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"She quite liked being handcuffed too *some type of sexual kink*" :rolleyes:
 
Sayrah said:
Sturman is now arguing about whether Couzens posing as a police officer (when he was a police officer) should not be treated as an aggravating factor deserving of Whole Life #SarahEverard

https://twitter.com/totalcrime/status/1443505212736557058?s=21
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IMO, it should be given that he wasn’t on duty, and therefore the fact he is one ordinarily doesn’t lighten the fact he used that very fact (and the accompanying equipment such as training, cuffs and ID badge) to dupe a victim. Instead, to me it amounts as impersonating an on-duty officer for the purposes of deception and abduction, and therefore is one of the more aggravating factors?!
 
The defence lawyer will know by giving this piece of work the most professional defence available means that he will be less likely to appeal the whole conviction at a later date.

A good defence is as important in getting justice as a good prosecution.
 

Rebecca Barry@BeccaBarry
Wayne Couzens “accepts he will receive and deserves to receive a severe sentence”.. he has “revulsion for what he did and does not seek to make excuses” and is “filled with self loathing and abject shame” according to his defence

2:15 AM · Sep 30, 2021

Wayne Couzens is back in the dock at the Old Bailey waiting to hear if he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison #SarahEverard

2:11 AM · Sep 30, 2021

Couzens is sitting with his head bowed, as he has throughout most of proceedings #SarahEverard

2:20 AM · Sep 30, 2021

Couzens’ defence barrister says he did not set out to commit murder. He says as a police officer he knew about automatic number plate recognition, he knew hire car could be traced back to him, he made no attempt to conceal identity: all this is inconsistent with intention to kill

2:23 AM · Sep 30, 2021·

Defence: “He is ashamed; What he’s done is terrible, he deserve a very lengthy finite term”

2:24 AM · Sep 30, 2021·

Judge is deciding whether to impose a whole life order - where Couzens would never be considered for release. Defence is arguing against this

2:23 AM · Sep 30, 2021
 
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Parmalade said:
IMO, it should be given that he wasn’t on duty, and therefore the fact he is one ordinarily doesn’t lighten the fact he used that very fact (and the accompanying equipment such as training, cuffs and ID badge) to dupe a victim. Instead, to me it amounts as impersonating an on-duty officer for the purposes of deception and abduction, and therefore is one of the more aggravating factors?!
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I agree, but that isn't the law - at the moment.....

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1443469893513490437

"In essence: the murderer of a police officer will face a whole-life sentence, while a police officer using their power of arrest and their office for a murder will not"
 
Telegraph 10.24 am

Whole-life tariffs for murders of two or more, says defence
The defence counsel has pointed to legal terms which provides examples of cases that would normally meet the test for the imposition of a whole life order.

Jim Sturman said: "The murder of two or more persons, where each murder involves one of the following:

  1. A substantial degree of premeditation or planning
  2. The abduction of the victim
  3. Or sexual or sadistic conduct
  4. The murder of a child if involving the abduction of the child or sexual or sadistic motivation
  5. The murder of a police officer or prison officer in the course of his or her duty, where the offence was committed on or after April 13, 2015
  6. A murder done for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause
  7. A murder by an offender previously convicted of murder
 
10.26 am
'Anxiety' of wider coverage of case shouldn't sway judge, defence says
Jim Sturman QC said that the "anxiety" of the wider coverage of the case should not sway the judgment.

He said Lord Justice Fulford "should stand firm" and "I know that he will".

The judge responded: "I've got the skin of a rhinocerous, Mr Sturman."
 
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