Wayne Couzens: PCs in WhatsApp group with Sarah Everard killer found guiltyon September 21, 2022 at 2:37 pm

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Two Met PCs shared grossly offensive messages with Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens.

Jonathon CobbanImage source, PA Media

A serving Met police constable and an ex-officer have been found guilty of sharing “grossly offensive misogynistic and racist messages” with Sarah Everard’s killer.

Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former PC Joel Borders, 45, shared WhatsApp messages about women and disabled people with Wayne Couzens.

Judge Sarah Turnock described some of the comments as “abhorrent”.

Couzens, 49, murdered Ms Everard last year while serving as a Met officer.

In comments on April 5 2019, Cobban and Borders swapped messages about tasering children, animals and disabled people.

Judge Tunnock said: “I can honestly say that I consider it to be sickening to think of a police officer joking about using firearms in this way.”

Cobban, from Didcot, Oxfordshire and Borders, from Preston, Lancashire, will be sentenced at a later date.

William Neville, 34, was cleared of sending grossly offensive messages following a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in July.

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