On March 3, when 33-year-old Everard returned home from a friend’s house in south London, he kidnapped her in a car. Her body was later found in woodland about 80 kilometers away in southeast England. An autopsy last month concluded that she died from compression of her neck.

When attending the hearing at the Old Bailey Court in London via a video link, when asked how he defended the murder charge, Kutzens lowered his head and said, “Guilty, ma’am.”

Prosecutor Tom Little said the police officer had never seen Evra before he kidnapped Evra from London’s South Loop, and they were “completely strangers”.

Judge Adrian Fulford said that Kuzens’ previous description of the incident was completely wrong, and it was an elaborate story involving Eastern European gangs.

“This is a huge investigation that has produced some very important results in terms of being able to understand what happened,” Fulford said.

Apologize to family

Britain’s most senior police officer and chief of the London Metropolitan Police Department, Cressida Dick, told reporters outside the court that she had personally apologized to Everard’s family.

“All of us in the metropolis are disgusted, angry and shocked by this man’s crimes. They are terrible,” she said.

Evlad’s murder aroused the outrage of women who told about their experiences and feared that they would walk alone in the street at night, prompting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to commit to action, including spending money to improve street lighting.

Couzens’ lawyer James Sturman said that his client’s request represented “real guilt and regret for what he did.”

“As he told us this morning, he will bear this burden for the rest of his life. He deserves it-his words’I deserve it’. He accepts that the victim in this case is Ever Rad’s family and friends, not him,” Stuman told the court.

The two-day sentencing hearing will consider psychiatric reports and will begin on September 29.