A London police officer was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for abusing his power to rape and kill a woman in March under the guise of lockdown enforcement.

Justice Adrian Fulford sentenced Wayne Couzens, 48, to life in prison with no chance of parole. Fulford said Couzens betrayed his role as a police officer and that the circumstances of the case were “devastating, tragic, and wholly brutal,” according to the Associated Press.

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