The wife of killer cop Wayne Couzens is believed to have logged in remotely to watch him be sentenced to life in prison.
Couzens, 48, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered Sarah Everard, 33, will die behind bars after he confessed to his monstrous crimes.
His wife of 15 years, Elena, 39,
is understood to have watched the sentencing at the Old Bailey ‘silently’ from a secret location.She is said to have been living in fear of trolls ever since her husband was arrested at his home in Kent on March 9.
Addressing Couzens today, Lord Justice Fulford said: ‘Your wife and children, who on all the evidence, are entirely blameless will have to live with the ignominy of your dreadful crimes for the rest of their lives.’
Elena may have listened as Sarah’s dad and sister asked Couzens to look them in the eyes as they spoke of the impact of the tragedy on Wednesday afternoon.
Heartbroken dad Jeremy Everard told his daughter’s killer no punishment he receives ‘will ever compare to the pain and torture that you have inflicted on us’.
The dad said: ‘You murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends.
‘Sarah had so much to look forward to and because of you this is now gone forever.’
Earlier this year, Elena said she was ‘just as puzzled as everyone else’, adding that she had been constantly asking herself how she ‘missed the signs’.
The devastated wife said she initially thought the arrest was just her husband’s colleagues playing a prank.
Her twin sister Tetyana, 39, told MailOnline: ‘I do not know why he had done what he has done, my head has been spinning for days, weeks while I was trying to understand it.
‘I do not know the reasons that made him do it, and I am not going to speculate.
‘He must serve quite a severe punishment for what he’s done.’
During sentencing, the Old Bailey heard how Couzens took his wife and children to the woods where he had burned Sarah’s body two days earlier.
He had pretended to arrest the marketing executive to force her into his car just hours after finishing a shift.
In July, his wife asked the Met to pass on her condolences to the victim’s family, saying ‘what happened to Sarah should not happen to any woman’.
She said: ‘The feelings I am going through, they are going through much worse. It is horrendous.
‘As a parent, I have my own two children. I do not want anything like that to happen to them. I cannot imagine the heartache that Sarah’s parents are going through.
‘If I had the power to bring anyone back from the dead, Sarah would be the first person that I would choose.’
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