BREAKING: Police officer Wayne Couzens charged with kidnapping and murdering Sarah Everard

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with murdering and kidnapping Sarah Everard, who went missing in south London last week.

Wayne Couzens, 48, will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday , according to a statement from the Met.

A woman in her 30s who had also been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on bail.

She is due to return to a police station in mid-April.

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