especially western scotland. some heavy with hail and thunder, and will feel a little cooler in the showers. this is bbc news, i m martine croxall. the headlines. the family of sarah everard welcome the whole life sentence handed down to her killer, saying the world is a safer place with him imprisoned . thejudge said wayne couzens showed no evidence of contrition and said and said contrition. the home secretary described the crime as sickening. the the crime as sickening. monster that has been con today, the monster that has been convicted today, it is right he has been given a whole life tariff and with that, he can never walk the streets of our country again. but he can never walk the streets of our country again- country again. but questions are bein: country again. but questions are being asked country again. but questions are being asked about country again. but questions are being asked about how - country again. but questions are being asked about how couzens| country
no words that listen to what she said. there are no words that can listen to what she said. there are no words that can fully listen to what she said. there are no words that can fully express i listen to what she said. there are i no words that can fully express the fury and overwhelming sadness that we all feel about what happened to sarah. i am so sorry. we all feel about what happened to sarah. i am so sorry. dame cressida dick, the commissioner sarah. i am so sorry. dame cressida dick, the commissioner of sarah. i am so sorry. dame cressida dick, the commissioner of the i dick, the commissioner of the metropolitan police. the prime minister has released a statement. he said, there are no words that adequately express the horror of sarah s murder. like the rest of the country, i have been sickened by what we have heard over the course of this sentencing, and the pain and suffering endured by herfamily and friends is truly unimaginable. our police are there to protect us
in present. that is a statement from her family with in present. that is a statement from herfamily with him in prison. we have those incredibly powerful victim personal statements that her parents read to court yesterday. they use the words that were described in report, the pain, the anguish, the torment. that they continue to suffer as a result of what couzens, a surfing metropolitan police officer, did to ms everard. anyjudge, and his sentencing remarks, said at the seriousness of the case was so exceptionally high that it warranted a whole life order and he also said to couzens, who was shaking in the dock as he was sentenced today, that he had eroded public confidence in the police in england and wales. i do not know if you can see just find us england and wales. i do not know if you can seejust find us here england and wales. i do not know if you can see just find us here at the old bailey, there are dozens of people, mainly camera crews, photographers, reporters, but also
a family broken by unimaginable loss, a police force left questioning how it will recover. im deeply ashamed, i m deeply angry and so, inevitably, yes, that fragile trust certainly between women and the police has been fractured yet further. described as a wholly blameless victim, to those who loved her, sarah everard will always be the precious little girl who became a woman with a beautiful mind, taken cruelly from them by a man who took advantage of his position. megan patterson, bbc news. our correspondent helen wilkinson is at the old bailey. in a lot of reaction coming out at this whole life tariff. who has been speaking and what have they been saying? we have and what have they been saying? - have had any last half an hour or so, a statement released through the police which has been released by
following the sentencing here at the old bailey, but wayne couzens, who, to repeat, he was a serving metropolitan officer when, in march, he spotted sarah everard. she had been walking home from a friend s house that night. he falsely arrested her, showed her his warrant card and within five minutes he had kidnapped her, put her into the back of a hire car, drove her to kent and thejudge in court at of a hire car, drove her to kent and the judge in court at some of a hire car, drove her to kent and thejudge in court at some point today said it was a devastating crime and we heard yesterday from the prosecution who had said that at some point after couzens had driven off with a sarah everard any back, she must have known that he wasn t taking to scratch my car to a police station. he then raped and murdered her, taking herto station. he then raped and murdered her, taking her to a police station. he then raped and murdered her. he has been sentenced to a