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What happened to Sarah Everard?
Sarah, 33, disappeared after leaving a friend's house in Clapham, South London, on the evening of March 3, 2021 at around 9pm.
She left the property and began walking to her home in Brixton, spending 15 minutes on the phone with her boyfriend as she walked.
Police launched a huge search and on March 9 detectives investigating Sarah's disappearance charged a serving Met Police officer in his 40s - later identified as Couzens.
Sarah's body was discovered in a woodland in Ashford, Kent, a week after she disappeared.
Post-mortem results revealed that Sarah died from compression to the neck.
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Report expected to highlight problems with police vetting system
Today's report is expected to highlight serious problems in the police vetting system.
Wayne Couzens was allowed to transfer from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) into the Met despite being linked to a sexual offence in 2015.
He joined Kent Police as a special constable in 2002, became an officer with the CNC in 2011 and then moved to the Met in 2018.
Couzens indecently exposed himself three times before the murder, including twice at a drive-through fast food restaurant in Kent in the days before the killing.
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What is the Angiolini Inquiry?
Today's report, commissioned by the Home Office, will examine Couzens' career before the murder of Sarah Everard.
It will investigate whether the police missed warning signs and red flags and hopes to establish if the Met Police may have known about his behaviour before 2021.
Following Everard's murder it was revealed Couzens had been involved in flashing incidents while working on the force that the Kent police had allegedly failed to investigate
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Who is Wayne Couzens?
Couzens was a constable with the Metropolitan Police who lived in the coastal town of Deal with his wife and their two young kids when he was arrested six days after Sarah went missing on March 3, 2021. .
He had previously worked for more than 20 years as a light-vehicle body repair technician at a garage run by his dad in Dover.
In 2011 he left his job as a mechanic to follow in the footsteps of his brother, David, and became a cop.
In 2021, Couzens used his authority as a police officer to lure Sarah Everard into his car before abducting and killing her.
Sarah's body was discovered in a woodland in Ashford, Kent, a week after she disappeared.
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Independent report into Wayne Couzens to be published today
An independent report, led by Dame Elish Angiolini, into the killing of Sarah Everard, will be published today.
The report will examine whether the Metropolitan Police missed warning signs when catching her killer Wayne Couzens.
Everard was abducted and murdered by Couzens in 2021 after he used his authority as a police officer to trick her into getting in his car.