Sarah Everard, 33, disappeared on the night of March 3, 2021 while on her way to her home in south London. On the way, she talked to her boyfriend on the phone and nothing boded trouble. But then her phone was out of range and Sarah’s traces disappeared.
As the investigation later established, Scotland Yard agent Wayne Cousins stopped her and showed her his identification. The reason for her arrest was an alleged violation of the covid rules. This moment was caught on camera from a passing bus. The policeman handcuffed Sarah, put her in a hired car and drove to Kent; it only took five minutes to kidnap Everard.
A week after she went missing, Sarah’s remains were found in a woodland stream in Ashford, Kent, just yards from the Cousins site.
At trial, the officer admitted that he first raped and then strangled the girl with a police belt. A day later, he burned the body, put her remains in garbage bags and threw them away.
A week after she went missing, the remains of Sarah Everard (pictured) were found in a forest stream.
All his life, Cusins served in the police force. In 2018, he joined Scotland Yard in the firearms department, working on diplomatic missions.
The court sentenced him to life imprisonment, but, as practice shows, in most cases, even such criminals in the UK have a chance to be released early.
“YES WHO BELIEVES YOU”
And last week, another Scotland Yard officer, David Carrick, pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 24 rapes, against 12 women over the age of 18.
He locked his victims in a closet under the stairs, did not give them food, forced them to clean their house naked, and relieved them. It gave her tremendous pleasure to feel his power in those moments.
Scotland Yard officer David Carrick pleaded guilty to fifty offences.
But most alarmingly, he easily abused official powers. She warned her victims that she could kill her at any time without leaving any evidence, or plant drugs in her car and then arrest her.
“Who’s going to believe them?” Carrick told the terrified victims. And, as the statistics show, in Britain, only 1.3% of reported rape cases end with charges against the suspect. The sheriff used this until, in October 2021, one of his victims turned to the police for help.
EVERYONE KNEW EVERYTHING
One of Carrick’s victims plans to sue Scotland Yard for damages shortly after police failed to prevent nine more instances of officer intimidation. In 2017, the woman met Carrick on a dating app. They began an affair that lasted three years. Throughout this time, the officer regularly subjected the British woman to sexual violence.
However, his sadistic tendencies were already on the first date, when he suddenly grabbed her by the neck.
The police knew who it was. But they did not investigate properly, the victim is sure, who hides her name from the press. Nothing will change what happened to me. But I want to sue to force the police to act proactively in the future.
Experts believe that the woman has every chance to shake off tens of thousands of pounds from Scotland Yard.
UNCONDITIONAL DISTRUST
In David Carrick, the world did not converge like a wedge. The scale of the disasters at Scotland Yard turned out to be much larger than expected. The English police, which previously enjoyed the unconditional trust of society, turned out to be populated with sadists, racists, rapists and abusers.
Since the murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021, at least 16 metropolitan officers have been convicted, 12 of them accused of sexual harassment and violence against women.
There are now 1,633 complaints of sexual or domestic violence against 1,071 officers or police officers in the last ten years in the courts. Scotland Yard’s new commissioner, Mark Rowley, is trying to calm the public, arguing that the public still has confidence in the British police. But polls say otherwise. In November 2021, just 29% of English women said they could trust law enforcement after the murder of Sarah Everard.
CLEAR EXAMPLE
Among those who received a royal term for atrocities was crime squad detective Mark Collins, 58. He was baited and detained during an unambiguous correspondence with a 13-year-old girl, whose role was played by another officer who participated in the special operation. It was useless to deny in his case, he pleaded guilty to trying to persuade a child to have sex. For this, the court sent him to prison for two years and four months.
Mark Collins pleaded guilty to attempting to solicit sex from underage girls.
Officer Jamie Reiner turned out to be a natural sadist: he repeatedly beat and strangled his girlfriend, also a police officer. He was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison. Will Scott-Barrett received a nine-month suspended sentence for sending erotic photos to a 15-year-old boy.
Benjamin McNish, who was charged with voyeurism, also pleaded guilty: he spied on a woman taking a shower.
RECOVERY PLAN
Commissioner Mark Rowley developed a “plan to restore” Scotland Yard’s reputation in the public eye. Although he promises to rethink policing culture and standards, but the claim that criminals are the exception rather than the rule shows a lack of understanding of the scale of the problem, British journalists are sure. From 2017 to 2020, more than half of Scotland Yard employees found guilty of sexual harassment kept their jobs. The situation has only gotten worse in the last three years. Fewer officers found guilty of serious misconduct are being fired, according to the report.
The Home Office ordered all units to conduct an internal audit of all their employees by the end of March.
