A former London police officer who was jailed for life last year for raping and murdering a woman has been charged with two new counts of exposing himself in incidents which took place before that attack.
Wayne Couzens, 49, whose job was to guard diplomatic premises, abducted marketing executive Sarah Everard on a London street as she walked home from visiting a friend in March last year, using his police credentials to force her into his car.
The 33-year-old victim's body was later found in woodland about 80km away in southeast England.
When he sentenced Couzens, the trial judge said the case was "devastating, tragic and wholly brutal".
Earlier this year, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) approved charging Couzens with four more suspected offences of exposing himself less than a month before he attacked Ms Everard.
In May, Couzens pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to four counts of indecent exposure in relation to crimes that were allegedly committed in Swanley, Kent, in January and February 2021.
The service has now authorised two further charges of indecent exposure against Couzens.
"The two alleged offences took place in June 2015 and November 2020," the CPS said. Couzens was a police officer on the dates in question.
He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 2 September.
