London (CNN) A Metropolitan Police officer pleaded guilty Friday to murdering marketing executive Sarah Everard, whose disappearance while walking home in London prompted an outpouring across social media from women sharing their own experiences of sexual assault and harassment. Wayne Couzens, a serving police constable whose "primary role was uniformed patrol duties of diplomatic premises," had pleaded guilty to Everard's kidnap and rape in June. The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that he had now admitted a charge of murder at the Old Bailey court. Everard, 33, went missing on March 3 after leaving a friend's house in Clapham, south London, in the early evening. Couzens had been arrested a day earlier at his nearby home in Kent, on suspicion of kidnap.

Source: CNN July 09, 2021 11:45 UTC