- A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed without notice after using internal databases out of curiosity to discover the identity of Sarah Everard's murderer shortly after he was detained.
- A tribunal ruled that former PC Clare Tett had no proper policing purpose when accessing the custody records of Wayne Couzens, his wife, and Ms Everard on 10 March 2021.
- Ms Tett, who served for over 20 years, was also found to have inappropriately checked files for four other suspects held over serious offences including murder and blackmail.
- The panel rejected her defence that she accessed the records to refresh her system licence, noting she clicked through clear warnings regarding unauthorised access.
- Her conduct was found to have breached professional standards of confidentiality, orders, and instructions, amounting to gross misconduct.
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