BBC's Sarah Everard The Search For Justice: What happened and timeline of disappearance and death

A documentary examining the investigation into Sarah Everard’s murder will broadcast on BBC One tonight (Tuesday March 5). The 33-year-old marketing executive was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving Metropolitan Police office Wayne Couzens in March 2021.

Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice has been two and a half years in the making and airs days after the third anniversary of her death. It will hear from those closely involved in the case while examining its aftermath and impact.

Couzens' vile crimes sparked national outcry over women's safety and triggered a public inquiry. The documentary comes just days after a damning report released by Lady Elish Angiolini found the police repeatedly ignored and missed chances to stop him.

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The inquiry branded Couzens a “predatory sex offender and murderer” who should have never been a police officer, and laid bare a history of alleged sexual offending dating back nearly 20 years before he murdered Everard.

Everard had been walking alone from her friend's house near Clapham Junction to her home near Brixton Hill on March 3 2021 when she was stopped and arrested by Couzens. He was believed to have told her he was detaining her for breaching coronavirus rules.

He abducted Everard in a car he had hired especially and drove her to Kent. There, he raped and murdered her before hiding her body in woodland just meters away from a plot of land he owned.

Couzens then called in sick to work. Just days before the murder, he'd exposed himself to women in rural Kent.

In a statement, Everard's family said they believed she died 'because [Couzens] was a police officer,' adding: "She would never have got into a