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PUTRID MET Police: Sarah Everards’ KILLER Ex-COP Wayne Couzens is ALSO a PEDO
Wayne Couzens' HORRIFIC Story of Sexual Offending Revealed For The FIRST Time - How Was He EVER Allowed to Join The Police?
Killer cop kidnapped woman at knifepoint, sexually assaulted young girl and raped two women in attacks more than 10 years apart'... Sarah Everards’ family upset at missed chances to catch ‘serial sex offender’
MailOnline 1 MAR 2024
The killer cop is accused of kidnapping a woman at knifepoint in 1995, sexually assaulting a young girl and raping two women in attacks more than 10 years apart.
Police on the scene in Ashford, Kent where Miss Everard's body was found
Repeated opportunities were missed to stop Couzens that left him able to stay a cop despite being a serial sex offender with a reputation for disturbing sexual behaviour that led to a nickname of 'the Rapist'.
An inquiry has found Couzens' history of alleged sexual offending dated back nearly 20 years before he kidnapped, raped and murdered marketing executive Ms Everard in Clapham, south London, in 2021.
The married father of two - who first joined Kent Police in 2006 - was reported to officers eight times for indecent exposure between 2008 and 2021 but continued in the service due to 'lethargic and inadequate' investigations, today's report found.
Inquiry chair Lady Elish Angiolini identified at least five incidents which were not reported to police and warned there could be more victims.
Both Kent and the Metropolitan Police were criticised for inadequate investigations into claims of indecent exposure against Couzens.
He had a long history of alleged sexual offending before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Ms Everard in March 2021.
His alleged offences include eight reports of indecent exposure handed to police.
Today it also emerged for the first time Couzens, now 51, allegedly carried out a 'very serious sexual assault of a child barely into her teens' while he was in his twenties.
Couzens was accused of attempting to kidnap a woman at knifepoint in North London in 1995 while aged 23.
He was also accused of raping two women and indecently touching a man in a bar while wearing a blonde wig.
He is also said to have raped a woman during a singles night in east London between late 2006 and early 2007 and also raped another woman under a bridge in the capital in October 2019.
Lady Elish found the married father of two 'could and should' have stopped from getting a job as an officer, and that without a radical overhaul of British policing, there is 'nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight'.
The inquiry team found that there were instances where he showed extreme violent pornography to friends and police colleagues, in a move to test their boundaries, and sent unsolicited images of his genitals to women.
There was a series of incidents where he was accused of flashing - three of which he was sentenced for last year, despite already having received a whole life jail term for Sarah Everard's murder.
These were masturbating in front of a lone female cyclist in a Kent country lane in 2020, and twice exposing his genitals to staff at a fast food restaurant in February 2021 in the days before Sarah's murder.
He drove his own car and used his own credit card at the outlet but no action was taken at the time, with investigating officer Pc Samantha Lee later sacked for failing to investigate properly.
Another two similar incidents at the fast food restaurant were ordered to lie on file, and there were two incidents in 2008 and 2021 that were reported to the Met and Kent respectively at the time when Couzens allegedly exposed himself, but there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
In 2015, a member of the public reported having seen a man driving around in Kent with his genitalia exposed, giving the make, model, colour and registration number of the car.
Couzens was identified as the keeper of the car but Kent Police closed the investigation with no further action and without even speaking to him.
Lady Elish Angiolini said: 'This was a grave error and a very obvious red flag.
'By failing to properly investigate the allegation, Kent Police missed a valuable opportunity to disrupt or even prevent Couzens' future offending and to bring into question his position as an authorised firearms officer with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.'
Kent Police apologised today for what it admitted was a 'flawed' investigation.
A further incident where Couzens was allegedly seen masturbating with intent to shock a passerby in 2004 was reported to the Met after Sarah's murder, but there was not enough evidence to bring a charge.
Lady Elish said she was 'astonished' to learn that Couzens would have passed vetting for the Metropolitan Police even if the force had known about a previous accusation of indecent exposure.
She called for indecent exposure to be taken more seriously and victims encouraged to report crimes.
'The inquiry was struck by the similarities in approach between the investigations in relation to the June 2015 allegation and the 2021 drive-through restaurant offences.
'Both seemed destined to fail from the start, involving poor recording and decision-making and lacking the positive steps that could potentially have led to the identification of the suspect and detection of the crime.
'Rather than embarking on a process of detailed, thorough and time-consuming evidence gathering, the officers displayed apathy and disinterest and found reasons not to pursue the cases.'
Lady Elish has called for an immediate review of indecent exposure allegations against serving police officers.
Miss Everards' family have said she would have never got into Couzens' car if he hadn't been a police officer
Sarah Everards’ Killer Wayne Couzens In Alleged Sex Offence Against A Child
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