My recent Facebook posts on horrific UK case of serving police officer kidnapping from Central London, raping and murdering a woman whom he did not know

Last updated on 7th Jan. 2022 (with contents of 2nd Oct. 2021 FB post)

Contents of https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3225330357683519 :

I saw the first 3 minutes of the report which covers the Sarah Everard kidnap, rape and murder by a British policeman. Horrendous! I find it so hard to believe that this rogue policeman thought that he could get away with this horrendous crime. The report does not shed any light on what made him do this monstrous crime.

Sarah Everard murder: 'Our lives will never be the same again' @BBC News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nsQH31UaI , published today.

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Update: This video interview of a senior investigator on the case gives us a lot of background. Even the colleagues of the rogue policeman did not see anything gravely amiss in the man, prior to the horrendous crime. 

Exclusive: How they caught Sarah Everard's killer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgIKOrF54Q , 21 min. 28 secs., published on 29th Sep. 2021 by Sky News.

The investigator, Simon Harding, covers how bad the investigators felt when they realized that the suspect they were tracking was a serving police officer.

I think Simon Harding speaks very well about the case and the interviewer too does a great job by asking him the appropriate questions.

The lady was abducted in Central London and driven to Dover. I have travelled by train (not road) from Dover to London and back a couple of times in the mid 1980s when I was visiting London from Brussels where I was on a software assignment stint. So I am able to relate to life in these areas to some extent (I mean, it is not some faraway place which I have never set foot on). I also interacted with a few London based British software field folks in that period (mid 1980s), and later in the 1990s while in India working on a project of a British customer company. And so I am utterly horrified to know of this monstrous crime with the initial abduction part being committed in Central London by a serving British police officer. It will take me some time to get over it.

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Sarah Everard handcuffed and falsely arrested before she was murdered, court told, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DYhZl9aV8 , 12 min. 32 secs, published today by Channel 4 News.

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Contents of https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3225481271001761 :

Ex-UK police officer who murdered Sarah Everard gets life in prison with no chance of parole, https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/europe/sarah-everard-murder-wayne-couzens-sentencing-intl-gbr/index.html , 30th Sept. 2021.

The article has quite some details. The judge said that the convict was "hunting a lone female to kidnap and rape" in the evening of March 3rd, 2021 when he committed the abduction. The judge also said to the convict: "You have irretrievably damaged the lives of Sarah Everard's family and friends ... you have eroded the confidence that the public are entitled to have in the police forces ... you have utterly betrayed your family".

The judge said to the convict that he had seen "no evidence of genuine contrition on your part as opposed to evident self-pity."

Sarah Everard's (the victim lady's) mother said that her daughter "spent the last hours on this earth with the very worst of humanity. She lost her life because Wayne Couzens wanted to satisfy his perverted desires ... He treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish. I am haunted by the horror of it."

Everard's family said in a statement: "Nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back, but knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief".

Good to know that the judge gave a very harsh sentence of life in jail for the remainder of the convict's life without chance of parole, as the crime was horrific and committed by a serving police officer.

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'I am so sorry' - Met Chief apologises to Sarah Everard's family, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNVTDzcvsBg , 5 min. 27 secs., published today by Sky News.

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Home Secretary: 'Serious questions' for the Met Police over Sarah Everard's murder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6g3P9Ixzb0 , 4 min. 31 secs, published today by Sky News.

The interviewer mentions that the colleagues of the convicted police officer, seemed to know of some bad attitude that he had. This is in contrast to some video I shared earlier where it was mentioned that the colleagues did not have any such inkling of bad behaviour in the convict.

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As the London Met police chief said, the (successful) investigation and prosecution (and sentencing) happened in a short period of time. That is commendable. The monstrous crime happened in early March this year and the convict has been sentenced in end Sep.

In India, as of now, the pace of investigation and prosecution (and sentencing), even for such monstrous crimes, is much slower typically.

So I think that the work of the police and the prosecution in this case has to be commended. The judge has also done a great job. All said and done, justice has been delivered fairly and delivered swiftly to the perpetrator of the horrendous crime. Hats off to the UK justice system for this achievement.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sarah_Everard#Role_of_police mentions indecent exposure reports about the convict which seem to have not been properly investigated. Hmm. There is also mention of some horrible nickname that he was given by some colleagues but as it is just a horrible nickname, I am not giving it much importance. The accusations of indecent exposure are another thing! Perhaps he got away with it due to him being a police officer! If so, then UK police have to dig deep into their culture and change it to ensure that bad guys are weeded out from the police when they show such bad behaviour (like indecent exposure), well before they become monsters.

I mean, it is so very disturbing that this monster was a serving police officer. Everything feasible should be done to prevent this from recurring.

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Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens' police interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwpd7Fq4xa4 , 7 min. 16 secs., published on 30th Sep. 2021 by Sky News.

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Contents of https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3226072927609262 , 1st Oct. 2021 (Maharashtra is a state in India):

Julio Ribeiro's (former Mumbai police commissioner's) words of wisdom about policemen who commit rape

Yesterday night I was reading Julio Ribeiro's autobiography, Bullet for Bullet, My life as a police officer, first published in 1998 (I have the 4th edition dated 2019, bought from https://www.amazon.in/Bullet-JULIO-RIBEIRO/dp/8187520965 ). In the context of a rape committed by a policeman in the mid 1950s in Nasik (district) area of Maharashtra at which time Ribeiro had arrested the policeman, Ribeiro writes the following words of wisdom which are relevant even to the tragic rape & murder of Sarah Everard in UK which court case was recently concluded.

Ribeiro writes, "There is so much talk today about policemen being criminals in uniform that the necessity of carefully choosing recruits after psychological and other tests cannot be overemphasized. Policemen, even at the lowest level, are open to many temptations. The policeman has a position of authority which he can misuse to satisfy his animal instincts. Only very severe punishment for transgressions can deter those who are inclined to misbehave." - Page 39, Chapter: Murder in the mofussil.

Some details of the mid 1950s policeman raping woman in Nasik (district) area case: Ribeiro writes that he got informed of police firing on an Adivasi mob at a fair in Peint taluka (Adivasis are tribes in India, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adivasi ; taluka or tehsil is a local administrative unit (somewhat like county in USA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehsil ). Ribeiro was an SDPO (SubDivisional Police Officer) then who temporarily was handling district SP (Superintendent of Police) role. He was surprised as the Adivasis in the taluka were simple people (who would not usually attack the police) and so he suspected some great provocation. Ribeiro went to the location of the incident, reaching at night, at which time the location was lit using Petromaxes, as Peint did not have electricity then.

Ribeiro was informed by a sub-inspector that a police constable had "accosted" a young Adivasi couple, sent the husband on an errand, and in the husband's absence, the policeman had raped the woman. 

On the matter getting known later to the many other Adivasis at the fair, they were enraged and attacked the three policemen there who were stationed in the village temple. The policemen opened fire on the Adivasi mob, injuring a few, after which the mob fled.

On getting to know these details, Ribeiro ordered the arrest of the offending policeman and had him handcuffed. This calmed the people. The guilty policeman was tried and seems to have got sentenced to 7 years in prison (Ribeiro is not sure of the sentence part).

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Contents of https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3226135510936337 :

Good to see UK media raise pertinent questions with the policing minister. I like the way the UK media is holding leaders to account in this horrible case, and in concern for women's (and men's) safety from assault and worse by rogue police officers.

Policing Minister Quizzed On Why Wayne Couzens Slipped Through The Net Despite Allegations | GMB, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwgdHWJG3cU , 9 min. 49 secs., published today.

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Contents of https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3227004884182733

[UK] Boris Johnson urges public to trust police after Sarah Everard’s murder, youtube.com/watch?v=YOhHvV2b6aI , 1 min. 33 secs. published today by The Independent.