Killer cop Wayne Couzens got £33,000 legal aid to fight against being sentenced to a whole life term

THE cop who murdered Sarah Everard got £33,000 legal aid to fight against being sentenced to a whole life term.

Met firearms officer Wayne Couzens, 49, was convicted of the kidnap, rape and killing of the 33-year-old in South London in March last year.

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Figures show that top barrister Jim Sturman got £11,673.48 to argue unsuccessfully at his sentencing that he should not die in prison.

Mr Sturman asked the Old Bailey and Lord Justice Fulford to put a tariff on the term he gave to Couzens, but the judge disagreed.

Mr Sturman insisted: “A 35-year tariff is likely that the defendant will end up serving his whole life in prison anyway.

“The majority of cases where whole life sentences have been imposed have been multiple killings or there have been a second conviction, child killings or politically motivated.”

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His junior Shauna Ritche got £5,785.26, The Sun on Sunday learned from a Freedom of Information request.

Tuckers Solicitors, representing Couzens, received £16,236.78.

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Couzens launched an appeal at the High Court against the whole life tariff.

Appealing against the whole-life term, Couzens’s lawyers argued he deserved “decades in jail” but that a whole-life term was excessive.

Couzens is facing a trial on flashing crimes.