Met Police officer in Wayne Couzens' unit in court charged with rape
Couzens also allegedly exposed himself in a McDonald's in South London on February 28 - just three days before Sarah's murder.Met have been put under intense scrutinyShockingly, Couzens was not given enhanced vetting when he joined the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit in February 2020 and also did not serve his full two years on probation in September 2018.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave has admitted a check when Couzens transferred to the Metropolitan Police in 2018 was not done "correctly". Calls are now mounting for Met Chief Cressida Dick to resign following Couzens' sentencing and Carrick's arrest. Speaking on the latest development, she said: “I am deeply concerned to hear the news today that an officer from the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command has been arrested and now charged with this serious offence.“Criminal proceedings must now take their course so I am unable to comment any further at this stage.
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