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The body found hidden in Kent woodland has been identified as Sarah Everard, police revealed today.
Speaking outside Scotland Yard, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said Miss Everard s heartbroken family had been told this most distressing news .
And amid growing fury that a serving policeman may be responsible, he said he understood why the public feel hurt and angry after the marketing executive, 33, was kidnapped from the streets of London, killed and secreted in woods near Ashford.
The Met officer suspected of her murder, Wayne Couzens, 48, remains in custody today after detectives requested more time to question him when he injured himself in his cell at Wandsworth Police Station.
Sarah Everard murder suspect was tracked by plain clothes detectives for several days before they swooped in to arrest him
Sarah Everard vanished into thin air after leaving a friend s house in south London on evening of March 3
Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens has been arrested on suspicion of her kidnap and murder
Couzens works in Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command and is armed as part of his job
Couzens is also being questioned on a separate offence of indecent exposure against a different woman
Commissioner Cressida Dick confirmed human remains found in Ashford but id ing body will take time
The disappearance of Sarah Everard: the week-long investigation so far
March 3: Sarah vanished into thin air after leaving friend s home Clapham around 9pm. She leaves out of her friend s back gate and speaks to her boyfriend on the phone for 15 minutes.
March 5: Sarah s family share missing posters of her after they become increasingly concerned that she is still not home, spreading the word online with links to the Missing People charity.
March 6: Met Police release an appeal, saying Sarah was thought to have walked through Clapham Common, heading towards Brixton home, a journey of 50 minutes. They say they are not certain she ever arrived home.
The disappearance of Sarah Everard: the week-long investigation so far
March 3: Sarah vanished into thin air after leaving friend s home Clapham around 9pm. She leaves out of her friend s back gate and speaks to her boyfriend on the phone for 15 minutes.
Around three miles away Wayne Couzens finishes a 6-hour shift guarding the US Embassy in Battersea.
March 5: Sarah s family share missing posters of her after they become increasingly concerned that she is still not home, spreading the word online with links to the Missing People charity.
March 6: Met Police release an appeal, saying Sarah was thought to have walked through Clapham Common, heading towards Brixton home, a journey of 50 minutes. They say they are not certain she ever arrived home.