The British police officer arrested for alleged kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard was taken to a hospital on Thursday after being found collapsed in his cell, according to a report.
Metropolitan Police firearms officer Wayne Couzens, 48, was found with head injuries Thursday after his second night detained by the missing 33-year-old marketing executive, the police in Sun.
The father of two was believed to be alone in his cell at the Wandsworth police station in south London, according to the media.
“He was found unconscious in the cell with head injuries,” a source told the dam. “Custody officers rushed in and gave him immediate first aid and he was taken to [a] hospital, “the source said.
“It caused a panic and serious questions are being asked about how it happened.”
The Met’s Professional Standards Directorate is believed to be investigating the incident, according to the newspaper.
Scotland Yard confirmed to the Sun that “the suspect was taken to a hospital for a head injury he suffered while in custody”.
“He has since been discharged and returned to custody,” a spokesman told the dam.
Couzens was identified by numerous UK media as the officer who was arrested for the disappearance of Everard, who was last seen in CCTV images of granite as he was heading south London from a night of March 3rd.
Police confirmed Wednesday that human remains had been found near Ashford, Kent, about 20 miles from the hometown of Couzens, Kent.
Although the remains had not been officially identified as the 33-year-old missing woman, Everard’s uncle told the Evening Standard that it was “difficult to cling to the hope” of his “devastated” family.
Following the discovery, the officer was also “arrested further” in custody, now on suspicion of murder.
The 48-year-old police officer, a firearms officer at Scotland Yard’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, is also suspected of indecent unrelated exposure, police said, without providing details. He has not yet been formally charged.
His Ukrainian-born wife, Elena, 38, was also arrested on suspicion of aiding a criminal, Sun said.
Detectives are studying whether police used their official police ID to lure Everard into his vehicle, Sun said.
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“The working hypothesis is that he saw Sarah on the street for the first time and kidnapped her,” a source told the British newspaper.
“One theory is that he could have used Covid’s closure as a pretext to relate to her and then snatched her away.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that he was “Shocked and deeply saddened” by the evolution of “horrible crime.”
London’s top police officer, Commissioner Cressida Dick, said the news that the murder suspect was one of his service officers “has sent waves of shock and anger through the public and across the Met”.
“I speak on behalf of all my colleagues at the Met when I say that we are completely dismayed by this terrible news. Our job is to patrol the streets and protect people, ”the commissioner said.
“Sarah’s disappearance in these terrible and bad circumstances is the worst nightmare of all families.”
The kidnapping scared women across the UK, with the tags #saraheverard and #TooManyMen soon on trend.
Secretary of the Interior Said Priti Patel that “all women should feel safe to walk our streets without fear of harassment or violence.”
Dick insisted, however, that “luckily it’s incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.”