the murderer was in their ranks. two days after he had kidnapped sarah, couzens had bought two builder s bags at b&q. her body was found in one. couzens lived 30 miles away in deal, married with two children. a man who served in the territorial army, in the civil nuclear constabulary and, two and a half years before killing sarah, he joined the met police. questions for the force, how could he have been cleared to carry a gun when he would go on to kill? and questions about what officers did when couzens was reported for exposing himself twice in a takeaway restaurantjust days before the murder. could he have been stopped?