British Police Officer Admits Kidnapping, Raping Woman

Flowers and tributes near the site where Sarah Everard's body was discovered, near Ashford, U.K.

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London (AP) -- A British police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found a week later in the woods.

A court at London's Old Bailey heard Tuesday that Wayne Couzens, 48, accepted responsibility for the death of Sarah Everard though he was not asked to enter a plea to a charge of murder.