THIS is the chilling moment Wayne Couzens bought a Costa hot chocolate and a bakewell tart after murdering Sarah Everard.
The sick and twisted killer seemingly went along with his day and treated himself to a hot chocolate after raping and killing the 33-year-old.
The court heard today the prosecution could not pinpoint the exact time Ms Everard was killed.
But police believe she was dead by 2.31am – five hours after she was snatched from the street.
The vile killer then treated himself to a hot chocolate with coconut milk and bakewell tart from Costa just hours after the murder.
After raping and strangling her using his police belt, Couzens then burned her body in a plot of land he bought in 2019 that he described as "perfect for a day out".
Couzens, who was known to wear a police belt with handcuffs while off-duty, put her charred remains in green rubble bags and dumped them in a pond in woodland.
He visited Hoads Wood near Ashford twice during in the early morning, leaving just before sunrise.
The court heard he was to return to the area later the following day two more times.
At 8.15am on March 4, Couzens was captured on CCTV in a Costa Coffee shop in Dover buying the hot drink and tart.
He went on to return the Vauxhall hire car having driven just over 300 miles.
Later that morning, Couzens threw Ms Everard's mobile phone into a channel at Sandwich, only for it to be retrieved by a diver as part of a search of the waterway.
On March 5, Couzens bought petrol which he used to burn Ms Everard's body in the woods, the court heard.
Before admitting to his disgusting crimes, Couzens spun a web of lies and claimed that a Romanian gang threatened his family if he didn't snatch girls for them.
In a clip released by the Met Police today, Couzens is seen handcuffed during the enquiry process into Sarah's disappearance.
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He tells the officers: "I am in financial s***
"I have been lent on by…I don't know who they are. A group, a gang, whatever.
"They told me I need to go and pick up girls and give them to them so, I said – happily.
"And it then came through that there are going to harm my family and take them away and use them instead.
"At that point, I had no option to try and find somebody.
"So I don't – a couple of names. I was told a place to take her that's it, that's all I know."
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He continued his sick and twisted lie about how he was "forced" to snatch Sarah, saying: "I parked my car up. The van came up behind me and flashed me, and they all jumped out. And they took this girl.
"They said 'you've done good.'
"And I don't know if my family is going to be all right still. They threatened to take my family away from me.
"At that point, I'm doing what I can to protect my family."
Harrowing details of Sarah's murder were revealed for the first time today as the Met Police officer is sentenced for kidnap, rape and murder.
Sarah's brave parents stood up and read out powerful impact statements – while sitting through the painful final moments that their beloved daughter went through.
They watched the horrific CCTV footage where Couzens targets and kidnaps Sarah before she was put into his car.
The Old Bailey heard how Couzens used his warrant card to lure Sarah into his car as she walked home by claiming he was on a Covid patrol.
Just five minutes later, terrified Sarah was driven for 80 miles from London to Kent at the start of a “lengthy ordeal” that was to lead “inexorably to her rape and murder".
Prosecutor Tom Little QC said: "She must have realised her fate.”
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