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The detective who led the investigation into the homicide of Sarah Everard has revealed the chilling second she came upon the chief suspect was a police officer.

Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin spoke on digicam for the primary time in Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice, a BBC documentary two years within the making.

The 33-year-old advertising govt was kidnapped in March 2021 whereas strolling residence from a buddy’s home in south London.

Metropolitan Police constable Wayne Couzens drove her close to to Dover the place he raped and killed her earlier than burning her physique and throwing her stays in a pond.

Goodwin had despatched a workforce to query Couzens at his residence in Kent when a detective bumped into her workplace, shut the door and stated: “You need to hear this”, telling her he was a serving officer.

She stated: “I knew that I had to tell my boss and I can just remember the shock of having to just sit on the floor of the office and say to her, ‘You’re not going to believe this, that he’s a police officer’. And then the same questions went through her head as went through my head, ‘Are you sure?’.”

The Detective Chief Inspector added that they found Couzens was suspected of incident publicity in Kent after he and Miss Everard had been noticed on CCTV footage subsequent to a automobile, which led to his identification.

She stated: “At that time, Wayne Couzens was a name that meant nothing to any of us. So immediately we start researching the name, also the phone number and the address that had been given when he’d hired the car.”

The detective added that when it was discovered he was suspected of indecent exposure, it “instantly modified every part, as a result of while I might need hoped that Sarah had obtained into the automobile with somebody she knew, instantly it was clear to me that she’d obtained into the automobile of an alleged intercourse offender”.

Former detective Nick Harvey, who was the first to question Couzens and find out he was a serving officer, said: “The gravity of the entire state of affairs then grew to become extremely clear. You know, the second I informed the workforce, it simply went silent.”

Mr Harvey knocked on Couzens’ door and said that when he showed his warrant card “he simply went gray. Just… all the color simply ran out of his face.”

Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice will air tomorrow night (March 5) on BBC One, days after the third anniversary of her dying.