A court has been told that Wayne Couzens skipped work to expose himself to a woman, months before murdering Sarah Everard. The former Met Police officer is set to be sentenced for three acts of indecent exposure between November 2020 and February 2021.
Wayne Couzens was supposed to be working from home when he exposed himself to a woman months before murdering Sarah Everard, a court has heard.officer, 50, appeared before the Old Bailey on Monday to be sentenced for three acts of indecent exposure between November 2020 and February 2021.
In November 2020, he emerged naked from a woodland near his home in Deal, Kent, and masturbated while staring at a woman who cycled past.Prosecutors said the ‘scared and shaken’ woman told an off-duty female police officer who happened to be walking nearby and said she would investigate. Tom Little KC, prosecuting, said on Monday that Couzens was due to work from home between 8am and 4pm that day, adding: ‘It follows that he was on duty at the time of the offence.’
After two further incidents where he showed his penis to staff at a drive-thru in February 2021, he was interviewed under caution and admitted to using the restaurant regularly.Neither incident was reported to police until the day after Couzens’ second visit, when staff recalled the Seat’s full number plate and identified it from CCTV.
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