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Wayne Couzens was a serving Metropolitan Police officer who abused his power to lure Sarah Everard to her death.

He abducted, raped and murdered the 33-year-old marketing executive in March 2021.

After pleading guilty to the crimes, Couzens will die behind bars. However, his behaviour had been of concern before the killing, including exposing himself to women and there were claims he was nicknamed "the rapist" by other officers.

Here is a timeline of the police officer's journey to murder:

• 2002: Couzens joins the Kent Special Constabulary.

• 2015: Kent Police allegedly fail to investigate an indecent exposure incident linked to Couzens.

• September 2018: Couzens transfers to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) where he had worked since 2011.

• 2019: Couzens and his wife buy a small area of woodland off Fridd Lane in Ashford, Kent.

• February 2019: The PC joins a response team covering Bromley in south London, having initially served in a Safer Neighbourhood Team.

• February 2020: He moves to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command to patrol diplomatic premises, mainly embassies.

• 13 November 2020: He steps out of a woodland area in Deal, Kent, naked and masturbates as a woman cycles past.

• 14 and 27 February 2021: Couzens exposes himself to two female staff members at a drive-through fast food restaurant in Kent. He uses his own credit card to pay and is driving his own car.

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• 28 February 2021: Couzens books a white Vauxhall Astra from a car hire firm in Dover, Kent, using his personal details and bank card.

• 2 March 2021: 7pm: Couzens starts a 12-hour shift at his base in West Brompton, west London.

• 3 March 2021: Then-Met PC Samantha Lee goes to the fast food restaurant but does not trace Couzens' car, despite the restaurant manager claiming his registration number is visible in CCTV footage. She is later sacked and barred from working as a police officer.

Later that evening Couzens uses his status as a police officer to trick Sarah Everard into thinking she can be arrested for breaking lockdown rules in place at the time.

He rapes and murders her, then hides her body in woodland near Ashford in Kent.

• 9 March 2021: Couzens' phone is wiped of all data about 40 minutes before he is arrested on suspicion of murder. In a brief interview, he tells a false story about being threatened by an eastern European gang.

• 9 July 2021: Couzens pleads guilty to murder when he appears at the Old Bailey by video link from Belmarsh high security jail.

Read more: How Sarah Everard's killer was caught

• 30 September 2021: Couzens receives a whole life order when he is sentenced, with Lord Justice Fulford justifying the punishment because the murderer's use of his position as a police officer to detain Ms Everard was the "vital factor".

• October 2021: Couzens applies for leave to appeal against his sentence.

• November 2021: The Home Office establishes an independent inquiry led by Dame Elish Angiolini to look at Ms Everard's murder, with the first part focusing on Couzens and whether any potential risks or red flags were missed during his time in the police.

• March 2022: Couzens is charged with four counts of indecent exposure over alleged incidents in January and February 2021.

• July 2022: The Court of Appeal rejects his appeal against his sentence.

• 13 February 2023: Couzens pleads guilty to three counts of indecent exposure in Kent between November 2020 and February 2021.

• 6 March 2023: He is sentenced to 19 months for the offences, although he is already serving a whole life jail term for Ms Everard's murder and will never be released.

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• 21 March 2023: The Casey Review, commissioned by the Met in the wake of Ms Everard's murder, finds the force is institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist, and that there may be more officers like Couzens and rapist David Carrick in its ranks.

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• May 2023: Watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) calls for a national system to ensure all forces are told about criminal allegations made against serving officers, in light of the indecent exposure accusations against Couzens.

• 29 February 2024: A report on the first part of the Angiolini Inquiry, looking at incidents during Couzens' career and whether red flags were missed, is published.

It says Couzens should never have been a police officer and calls for a "radical overhaul" of police recruitment to stop "another Couzens operating in plain sight".

Ms Everard's family responds, saying she died because Couzens was a police officer, adding "she would never have got into a stranger's car" as they welcome the inquiry's findings.