Eleanor Neale

And there, he would be checked on every 15 minutes after being deemed a vulnerable prisoner.

Police likely felt, based on something that he'd said or done, that he could possibly be a danger to himself.

And actually they would be right because the following day news broke that the man arrested in connection with Sarah Everard's case was now in hospital.

He had been found collapsed in his cell with pretty bad head injuries.

I think he was unconscious.

He had been alone at the time.

So officers immediately knew that whatever had happened to him was self-inflicted.

It turned out that Wayne Cousins had smashed his head off of his cell toilet bowl

and knocked himself out.

But he was treated in hospital and sent back to his cell within a matter of hours.

By now, police had seized his car and forensic tests had been performed that not only revealed those fragments of Sarah's SIM card, but also traces of her blood and Wayne's semen in the backseat of the car.

A number of other things had been seized from his family home by now, including a petrol can, boxes of latex gloves, a police badge,

plastic cuffs along with a sex aid that was not further clarified in reports, so we can only imagine.

By now, Wayne knew that the jig was up.

I don't know how long exactly it took, but he very quickly came clean to the police about the fact that he had indeed murdered Sarah Everard.

A couple of months later, June 2021, Wayne Cousins pled guilty

to the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah.

And this meant that the case wouldn't have to go to trial.

Sarah's loved ones were thankfully spared the prolonged trauma of having to endure a trial where all of the evidence would have to be laid out in excruciating detail, all while her murderer would be pretending that he's not responsible.

Luckily, he did plead guilty before it got to that point.