Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, has been charged with four counts of indecent exposure, prosecutors have said. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the alleged offences occurred in the weeks before he kidnapped Everard. It follows an investigation by the Metropolitan police, who said all four alleged incidents took place in the Swanley area, in Kent, close to south London. The Met said they had been authorised by the CPS to charge Couzens with indecent exposure on four occasions in 2021: between 22 January and 1 February; between 30 January and 6 February; on 14 February; and on 27 February. In a statement, Rosemary Ainslie, the head of the CPS special crime division, said: “Following a referral of evidence by the Metropolitan police, the CPS has authorised four charges of indecent exposure against Wayne Couzens. “The four alleged offences took place between January and February 2021. “He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on 13 April.” Couzens is a former garage mechanic who first joined the Civil Nuclear constabulary before transferring to the Met in 2018. At the time of his arrest in March 2021, days after Everard disappeared, he was serving in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection unit. He lived in Deal, Kent. Everard’s remains were recovered from woodland near Ashford in Kent, about 20 miles west of Couzens’s home in Deal, a week after she disappeared. A postmortem showed that she died from compression of the neck.