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		</div><p>The police officer who murdered Sarah Everard has lodged an appeal to reduce the length of his jail sentence.</p>
<p>Wayne Couzens was handed a whole-life tariff in September after kidnapping, raping and murdering the 33-year-old.</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police firearms officer used his warrant card and handcuffs to snatch the marketing executive off the street, using Covid lockdown rules to make a false arrest.</p>
<p>The 48-year-old had been planning for at least a month before abducting Ms Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3rd.</p>
<p>A Court of Appeal official said on Wednesday: “An application (for permission to mount an appeal against sentence) has been lodged.”</p>
<p>Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Lord Justice Fulford said the case in which a serving officer abused his position was so exceptional that it warranted a whole life order, meaning Couzens will never be freed.</p>
<p>It was the first time the sentence had been imposed for a single murder of an adult not committed in the course of a terror attack.</p>
<p>The judge said: “The misuse of a police officer’s role such as occurred in this case in order to kidnap, rape and murder a lone victim is of equal seriousness as a murder for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.”</p>
<p>After the sentencing, Ms Everard’s devastated family said that, while nothing could bring her back, knowing Couzens “will be imprisoned forever brings some relief”.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Reading terrorist Khairi Saadallah lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his whole-life sentence for the murders of three men, following a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice.</p>
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