'Respectful' BBC drama on murder of Sarah Everard to air

'Respectful' BBC drama on murder of Sarah Everard to air 6 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Yasmin Rufo BBC News PA Media The BBC has announced a "respectful" two-part factual drama on the murder of Sarah Everard. Everard was abducted, raped and killed by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens in south London on 3 March 2021. He tricked her into thinking she could be arrested for breaking Covid lockdown rules as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham. The currently untitled series will examine the circumstances that allowed a sex offender to become, and remain, a police officer. 'Sensitivity and care' In 2023, Couzens admitted three counts of indecent exposure, one of which he committed four days before killing Everard. He is serving a whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of the 33-year-old. The series will be made by award-winning writer Jeff Pope who has also produced other dramas based on real-life crime including Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and Little Boy Blue, about the 2007 murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool. Pope said the key question asked by his drama is how Couzens was still a serving officer "after committing numerous sexual offences over a long period of time". …