In his new police documentary, Will Mellor describes how it felt to investigate the night of Sarah Everard’s death.
Police Who Kill, starring Will Mellor, 46, examines the police from a fresh perspective, as the true crime series investigates eight tragic situations in which cops committed murder.
The series investigates the high-profile kidnapping and murder of Everard by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens in March 2021, which shocked the country.
Couzens enticed the 33-year-old into his car in South London by pretending to arrest her with a police warrant card and handcuffs.
He then drove the marketing professional 80 miles to Kent, where he sexually assaulted and murdered her.
Will recounted treading in Everard’s footsteps as ‘leaving [him] feeling very nauseous’ as he travelled to the location of the kidnapping near Clapham Common while investigating the case.
‘To feel vulnerable as a woman, to walk in her footsteps, it did open my eyes to the safety of women, and also how vulnerable they must feel at times on their own,’ the soap actor said.
‘Going down a busy street like she was, she did everything properly, and she was on the phone to her boyfriend, and she’d just gone out for a glass of wine with a friend,’ the Strictly Come Dancing star said this morning on Lorraine.
The Coronation Street star also stressed that the series, launched today, is ‘not cop-bashing’ but looks at the ‘bad eggs who escape through the net’.
He also emphasised the point that ‘red flags’ should be acted upon before it’s too late, as he pointed to Couzens’ moniker among other police before of Everard’s death, which was ‘the rapist’.
After Everard’s murder, over a dozen Metropolitan Police officers have been convicted of severe crimes, the vast majority of which were sex offences against women.
Couzens, who is already serving a life term for his crimes, is scheduled to be sentenced today for three charges of indecent exposure committed before raped, abducted, and murdered Everard.
Will, a father of two, recently announced that he is placing a monitoring device on his youngest daughter’s phone due of his concerns about women’s safety.
‘It’s so important,’ he said.
‘I said to her, “I’m not spying on you but if anything happens, I know where you are”.
‘I am protective of people but my kids are my world and you just want to protect innocence.’
The actor and his wife Michelle McSween have two children, Jayden, 18, and Renee, 14.
Lorraine airs weekdays on ITV1 at 9am.
Source My Celebrity Life.