Wayne Couzens receives wife’s first visit in prison

The murderer of Sarah Everard sobbed and apologised after receiving a visit from his wife who went to see him in jail.

After Wayne Couzens was given a life sentence with a whole life order on September 30, 2021, his wife made her first visit to him at HMP Frankland in County Durham.

The former police officer was punished by the UK court after handcuffing and detaining Sarah in a phoney COVID patrol before he raped and killed her.

The day after he failed to obtain a reduction in his lifetime sentence, his Ukrainian wife Olena made the decision to see him in prison.

According to sources, he worries that following his conviction, he won’t ever see her again.

Senior judges heard appeals or objections to five convicted murderers’ jail terms in May, including Couzens’ life sentence.

However, the sentence for Couzens was not reduced by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett or the other four judges.

The 33-year-old Sarah was raped and murdered by the former officer last year; it was the first time a sentence of this length had been given for a single adult murder that wasn’t conducted as part of a terror act.

In March 2021, as the marketing executive walked home from a friend’s house, the wicked murderer faked her arrest using Covid abilities before raping and killing her.

Before kidnapping Ms. Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, South London, the 48-year-old had been plotting the crime for at least a month. He used his warrant card and handcuffs to carry out the crime.

Couzens’ attorneys contended in an appeal against the whole-life sentence that although he deserved “decades in jail,” a whole-life sentence was disproportionate.

However, according to a summary given out in court by Lord Burnett, the Couzens case’s facts allowed the sentencing judge to impose a full life term.

Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, and other detainees were transferred to Frankland from the Hague after receiving 50-year sentences for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Taylor’s wife had previously expressed dissatisfaction with his treatment and demanded that the convicted warlord who supported the rebels responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people be transferred to a facility with better living circumstances.