Chilling videos show Wayne Couzens after he raped and murdered Sarah Everard, with the killer policeman casually visiting Costa before calling a vet to book his dog in for an appointment while he was burning her body.

Further footage aired in a new BBC documentary shows the callous murderer moaning about his mental health during a police interview and lying that he had been pressured into kidnapping Miss Everard by an Eastern European gang.

Couzens tricked the marketing executive into getting into his hire car in March 2021 before driving her from London to woods near his home in Deal, Kent, where he raped and murdered her before dumping her body. 

Today, Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice published a photo of the warrant card he used to persuade the 33-year-old he was arresting her. 

The programme also revealed new footage of Couzens being interviewed at Wandsworth police station, with the firearms officer seen moaning about his mental health while rocking from side to side. 

He had been declared medically fit to be interviewed moments before, and is seen wearing a white plaster on his head following an incident of self-harm.  

Wayne Couzens being interviewed by police as he sits on the sofa at home. At first he denied knowing Sarah Everard 

Couzens buying a hot chocolate and a Bakewell tart at Costa on the morning after the murder 

The warrant card that Couzens used to trick Miss Everard into getting into his car 

In the video, Couzens moves his head from one side to the other and looks away as he says ‘I’m in a dark place’ after being asked how he is feeling.

During the interview, he is shown a picture of Miss Everard and asked if he recognises her.

After leaning forward to look at the image, he then shuts his eyes and rocks from side to side and replies ‘no comment’. 

He shows no emotion as it is revealed to him the picture is of Miss Everard and answers ‘no comment’ again as he is asked if he used his warrant card to lure her into his hired car.

He rolls his head around as the detective says to him: ‘Is that how she trusted you? Because obviously as a police officer we know we are in a position… people trust us, don’t they?

‘People trust us to look after them. People trust us to help them. Protect and serve, that’s what they say. We all took that oath. You included.’

Couzens kidnapped Miss Everard from Poynders Road after convincing her to get into his car by showing his warrant card at around 9.35pm on March 3. 

He then took her to Hoads Wood near Ashford where he raped and murdered her, before hiding her body under a dumped industrial fridge. 

He then returned home and at 8.15am the following day – March 4 – he was caught on CCTV casually buying a hot chocolate with coconut milk and a Bakewell tart from a Costa Coffee shop in Dover.

Couzens called in sick and spent the day at home before going out to buy petrol in a jerry can, which he took back to the wood.

Couzens looks at a picture of Sarah Everard as it is held up to a protective screen while he is being quizzed by detectives at Wandsworth police station in London

He was recorded calling a vet to book in for an appointment about his dog’s ‘separation anxiety’ – at the very moment police believe he was burning Miss Everard’s body. 

‘The fact that he was able to do things that were so horrific and thing that were so mundane and normal at the same time is really chilling,’ Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, told the BBC documentary. 

Couzens was eventually tracked down by detectives after finding CCTV of Miss Everard standing by a car he had hired and he was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping just before 8pm on March 9. 

Footage shows a team led by detective Nick Harvey interviewing Couzens as he sits on a sofa. 

The killer is shown a picture of Miss Everard and after denying knowing who she is goes on to admit kidnapping her before spinning a false story about being forced into doing so by an Eastern European gang.

A recently published report found there were repeated missed opportunities to stop Couzens that left him able to stay in the police despite being a serial sex offender with a reputation for disturbing sexual behaviour.

New images of Miss Everard were released for the documentary. The BBC said it liaised with her family

The Durham University graduate’s horrific murder renewed a debate around male violence against women and a toxic culture in the police 

An inquiry found Couzens’ history of alleged sexual offending dated back nearly 20 years before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah in Clapham, south London.

The married father of two was reported to police eight times for indecent exposure between 2008 and 2021 but was able to continue in the police due to ‘lethargic and inadequate’ investigations, a report found.

Inquiry chair Lady Elish Angiolini identified at least five incidents which were not reported to police and warned there could be more victims.

It emerged for the first time that Couzens, now 51, allegedly carried out a ‘very serious sexual assault of a child barely into her teens’ while he was in his twenties.

Couzens was accused of attempting to kidnap a woman at knifepoint in North London in 1995 while aged 23. He was also accused of raping two women and indecently touching a man in a bar while wearing a blonde wig.

Lady Elish found the married father of two ‘could and should’ have been stopped from getting a job as an officer, and that without a radical overhaul of British policing, there is ‘nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight’.

The inquiry team found that there were instances where he showed extreme violent pornography to friends and police colleagues, in a move to test their boundaries, and sent unsolicited images of his genitals to women.

Both Kent and the Metropolitan Police were criticised for inadequate investigations into claims of indecent exposure against Couzens.

There was a series of incidents where he was accused of flashing – three of which he was sentenced for last year, despite already having received a whole life jail term for Sarah Everard’s murder.

These were masturbating in front of a lone female cyclist in a Kent country lane in 2020, and twice exposing his genitals to staff at a fast food restaurant in February 2021 in the days before Sarah’s murder.

He drove his own car and used his own credit card at the outlet but no action was taken at the time, with investigating officer Pc Samantha Lee later sacked for failing to investigate properly.

Another two similar incidents at the fast food restaurant were ordered to lie on file, and there were two incidents in 2008 and 2021 that were reported to the Met and Kent respectively at the time when Couzens allegedly exposed himself, but there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.

Couzens (pictured) was a serving officer in the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit

The documentary covers the ensuing police investigation and hears from officers including Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation

In 2015, a member of the public reported having seen a man driving around in Kent with his genitalia exposed, giving the make, model, colour and registration number of the car.

Couzens was identified as the keeper of the car but Kent Police closed the investigation with no further action and without even speaking to him.

Lady Elish Angiolini said: ‘This was a grave error and a very obvious red flag.’

Today, Sadiq Khan will pledge to drive through cultural reforms in the Metropolitan Police to restore trust in the force after the damning report about missed chances to stop Sarah’s killer.

After the third anniversary of Sarah’s death, the mayor of London will open the latest London Policing Board by expressing his ‘deepest sympathies’ to her loved ones, and labelling Lady Elish’s report ‘one of the most shattering accounts of failure in British policing history’.

‘Knowing that a police officer harboured the capacity for such sadistic violence still haunts our city,’ Mr Khan will say.

Her family have previously said she would not have got into Couzens’ car had he not been a policeman 

Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice covers the investigation into her disappearance 

‘It’s a perpetual reminder of why we’re here and the importance of this board.

‘Our task is one of the most urgent facing London today: to ensure we drive through the wide-ranging cultural and performance reforms needed within the Met, to ensure that we support and challenge the commissioner in his mission – so that we can renew trust and confidence in policing in our capital.

‘Whilst the Met is now on the path to fundamental reform, we’re clearly not there yet.

‘I see police reform as a critical part of my mayoralty, and we must not be satisfied until Londoners have the police service they deserve.’

The board will hear from Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley about progress on addressing the findings and recommendations of the Casey Review, which was commissioned by the Met after Ms Everard’s murder.

It found the force was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist, and that there might be more officers like Couzens in its ranks.

Couzens was given a rare whole-life sentence for the rape and murder of Sarah. It means he will die in prison.

Couzens was giving a rare whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder