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A detective in the Metropolitan Police has recalled the moment she found out Wayne Couzens was a serving police officer within the force.
Speaking about the case for the first time, Det Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin remembers the “shock” of hearing the murderer of Sarah Everard was working for the parliamentary and diplomatic protection group inside the Met police.
She made the comments while speaking on camera in a new documentary on the murder of Miss Everard in March 2021, who was killed by Couzens after using his position as a police officer to lure her into his car in south-west London.
Miss Goodwin led the investigation into Miss Everard’s murder as a member of the Met’s specialist crimes unit.
She said: “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’.”
Miss Goodwin also revealed in the documentary that police discovered Couzens was suspected of an indecent exposure offence days earlier in Kent before they found out he was a serving officer.
Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice has been two-and-a-half years in the making and will air at 9pm Tuesday evening on BBC One, days after the third anniversary of her death.