'Will you please look at me?': Everard family speak directly to killer during impact statements

“We have kept her dressing gown – it still smells of her and I hug that instead of her.”

Sarah Everard (Family Handout/CPS/PA)

Sarah Everard’s father asked her murderer to face him in court, telling Wayne Couzens: “No punishment that you receive will ever compare to the pain and torture that you have inflicted on us.”

Jeremy Everard, a professor of electronics at the University of York, stood in the witness box at the Old Bailey on Wednesday to read his victim impact statement.