Sarah Everard\u2019s mother said her daughter \u201cadded to the beauty of the world\u201d as she paid tribute to her humour and principled nature on the five-year anniversary of her murder.<\/p>\n
Writing for British Vogue, alongside a picture of Sarah taken at V festival for an online street style series in 2010, Susan Everard said she \u201cloved clothes and fashion\u201d and had \u201cher whole life ahead of her\u201d when the photo was taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a golden time when she had recently graduated and was back home from travels to south-east Asia and already making plans for future adventures\u201d she said. \u201cAlthough it is bittersweet, I love to see her, happy and beautiful, with her whole life ahead of her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susan Everard recounted some of the ways she missed her daughter, including swapping recipes, asking for her advice and hearing her laugh. She described Sarah as \u201cthoughtful, dependable and highly principled\u201d, and said she \u201cappreciated the absurd but could also be outraged at injustice and bad behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susan said she had only seen her daughter\u2019s home in Brixton Hill, where she was returning to on the night she was abducted on 3 March 2021, on video due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.<\/p>\n
When she cleared it after Sarah\u2019s death, along with Sarah\u2019s father, Jeremy, they could \u201csee how cleverly she had styled it and how welcoming she had made her home\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSarah had many talents but, in particular, I like to think of her dancing \u2013 she was a beautiful dancer,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201cMost of all, she was a loving and caring young woman; her many friendships are a testament to her lovely nature.\u201d<\/p>\n The Everard family remained a \u201cclose family\u201d of four, Susan said, who were navigating the future together while celebrating Sarah and meeting up with her friends.<\/p>\n Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by an off-duty Metropolitan police constable, Wayne Couzens, who is serving a whole-life order<\/a> in prison. It later emerged he had a history of alleged sexual offending and failings in the vetting process had allowed him to become a police officer.<\/p>\n