The life sentence is the capital punishment in the UK as there is no death penalty.

Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was abducted from a London street at about 9:30 pm. BST on Mar 3 while she was returning alone from her friend's house at Clapham in south London.

Prosecutors during the hearing said on Wednesday that London Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens had falsely arrested Everard under the guise of enforcing coronavirus lockdown restrictions, which were in place there at the time.

Couzens, a 48-year-old officer who had been a policeman since 2002, then raped Sarah Everard, murdered her, and then burned her body.

The body was discovered a week after the incident in a woodland outside the city, the prosecutors said.

BBC reported that Couzens had admitted the kidnap, rape and murder of Everard when he appeared in court several months ago, and it was also known that the Met police official's choice of victim was random, but the attack was planned.