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PC Samantha Lee was found to have failed to make “the correct investigative inquiries” in two incidents in which Couzens exposed himself to female members of staff at a McDonald’s restaurant in Swanley, Kent, on February 14 and 27, 2021.
A policewoman calling herself a ‘Naughty Officer’ committed serious misconduct by lying about her investigation into Wayne Couzens for two flashing incidents, a disciplinary panel found today. Ms. Lee attended the restaurant on March 3 and interviewed manager Sam Taylor, hours before Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the Met’s firearms officer.
Lee was also found to have lied about her actions when later questioned about the interview, claiming that she believed the restaurant’s CCTV was automatically removed so there would be no footage of Couzens or the offending.
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PC Samantha Lee is 29 years old.
Ex-Met PC in flashing case guilty of gross misconduct
A simple computer check on CCTV would have revealed that Couzens was the registered owner of the black SEAT Exeo and given his home address. Lee told the misconduct hearing that she didn’t know she was in charge of the case and she went on leave after the visit, assuming someone else would look into it “in a few days.”
She told the hearing that she had been “shocked” after Ms. Everard’s murder to learn that she had a responsibility to investigate Couzens’ previous crimes. She denied being lazy after being accused of carrying out ‘a woefully poor and rushed investigation’, she was unable to acquire CCTV and spent only 15 minutes in the restaurant.
But the panel’s chairman, Darren Snow, found that her dishonesty amounted to gross misconduct and that if Lee had been a serving officer, she would have been fired from the force.
In his testimony, Mr. Taylor said that he had shown Ms. Lee CCTV footage and told her that he could download it onto a USB stick. He also said that she explained to him that Couzens’ license plate could be seen on CCTV footage of the second incident.
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For her part, Ms. Lee denied that this was the case, saying that he had told her that there was no CCTV. Mr. Snow, reading the panel’s findings, found Mr Taylor to be a ‘credible’ witness. “We found that Sam Taylor is a credible witness and that the evidence from him was clear.”
He added: “It seems inconceivable to us that he did not show you the CCTV evidence.” Instead, the panel found that Ms Lee had been driven to dishonesty by the ‘pressure’ of the investigation. “We have some understanding of this situation, a relatively simple exposure became a subject of immense pressure,” she said.
In her testimony, Ms. Lee admitted that she made some mistakes, but said that nothing she could have done “would have changed the tragic outcome” of what happened to Sarah Everard later that day. “I accept that I could have done more in terms of CCTV and evidence collection, they were mistakes on my part and I accept that,” she said.
“And as much as I’ve thought about it over and over again, I don’t think anything I could have done would have changed the tragic outcome of what happened later that day.” In March of this year, Couzens was sentenced to 19 months in prison after admitting to three counts of indecent exposure.
He was already serving a life sentence behind bars for kidnapping Ms Everard as she was walking to her home in Clapham, south London, on March 3, 2021, and then murdering her. The third incident of indecent exposure relates to when Couzens exposed himself to a female cyclist on a country lane in Kent in November 2020.
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