Inside Wayne Couzens’ fantasist world as married cop ‘took prostitute to B&B 20 mins from home’ & trawled dating sites

KILLER cop Wayne Couzens lived in a sick fantasy world where he slept with escorts and indulged his sadistic urges by watching "brutal" porn.

The Met Police officer will die in jail after being given a whole life order for the brutal kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.

Cops are now investigating whether Couzens, 48, could be more responsible for more sickening crimes.

Couzens presented himself to the world as a dedicated elite diplomatic protection officer with a wife and two children.

Accustomed by now to hiding behind a mask, Couzens even signed up to an online talent agency claiming to be an actor.

But his best efforts to conceal his true self were not enough and red flags had started to be raised.

His creeped-out colleagues branded him "The Rapist" and knew he had a sadistic interest in violent porn.

And after his arrest over Sarah's murder, the family man persona the monster tried creating began to crumble.

The married dad-of-two was revealed as a sex pest who contacted escorts as he began indulging in his sexual fantasies.

Just one month before he kidnapped Sarah, he contacted a sex worker going by the username "escourtbabygirl".

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Couzens is understood to have taken the girl to a B&;B in Dover just 20 minutes from his family home to pay for sex.

One former pal even claimed Couzens had a 14-year-old girlfriend when he was 23 - giving an earlier insight into his deranged state of mind.

He also set up a Match.com dating profile under his middle name Michael claiming he was separated despite being married.

But even more sinister, it has since emerged Couzens slipped through the net despite colleagues knowing he had indulged his dark fantasies.

The first incident against him was reported in 2002 before he joined the police.

Couzens allegedly exposed himself in a McDonald's in South London on February 28 - just three days before Sarah's murder.

A similar indecent exposure claim against him was also made in Kent in 2015.

But a catalogue of errors allowed vile Couzens to roam free and murder Sarah.

He not given enhanced vetting when he joined the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit in February 2020 and also did not serve his full two years on probation in September 2018. 

Twelve police officers are being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct for gross misconduct over matters relating to the case.

BRUTAL KILLING

The watchdog is probing whether the Met failed to investigate two allegations of indecent exposure relating to Couzens just four days before he took Sarah.

A separate investigation is also ongoing into claims Kent Police failed to follow up on the allegation of indecent exposure in 2015.

A backlash against the police is now growing after it was revealed Couzens used his position as an officer to snatch Sarah from the streets.

The 33-year-old was walking home from a friend's house on March 3 when she was stopped by the monster, who accused her of breaking Covid rules.

After putting a handcuffed Sarah in the back of his car, she was driven 80 miles to Dover where she was raped and strangled with a police belt.

Couzens then burnt her body and dumped her in a pond to be found a week later.

Chillingly, he had been prowling the streets hunting for a victim after planning the grisly plot for a month.

WEB OF LIES

Even after his arrest, Couzens fiendish fantasies came into play when he spun an elaborate web of lies in a ludicrous attempt to dupe officers.

The story centred on his insistence he had "no choice" but to kidnap Sarah, who was a stranger to him, for the human trafficking gang.

He claimed he was in "financial s**t" and was  unable to pay for a prostitute he met in a Holiday Inn in Folkestone so was ordered to find "another girl" otherwise his family would be harmed.

He was repeatedly asked if he knew where Sarah was as her "family and friends are worried about her".

But the sicko denied murdering her, saying: "If I could do something to get her back this minute, I would.

"I'll do it again tomorrow if it meant saving my family... these guys meant business."

Couzens yesterday joined the grim ranks of criminals in the UK who will die behind bars after receiving a whole life tariff.

Lord Justice Fulford imposed the rare order, which just 61 criminals in the UK have, as he abused his position as a police officer.