Depraved killer Wayne Couzens phoned an escort for sex hours after he burned Sarah Everard’s body, the Daily Mail has learned.
Only after police reached her within weeks of the brutal murder of the 33 year-old, did the prostitute realize the timing of the call.
The call was made on the same day that the former Metropolitan Police officer took his wife and two children on a ‘family day out’ to the woodland where he had tried to destroy Miss Everard’s body.
He even let his children play near the pond where she had been dumped.
Couzens, 48, who was known to use prostitutes, started messaging the escort in February, while he was planning the rape and kidnap of a woman – with Miss Everard becoming his eventual victim.
Depraved killer Wayne Couzens phoned an escort for sex hours after he burned Sarah Everard’s body, the Daily Mail has learned
The escort, 34, a mother from Kent who asked not to be named, said: ‘The police told me that the man I had been messaging was the man who kidnapped and murdered Sarah. They wanted me to be OK.
‘It’s scary – I keep thinking, “That could’ve been me”. It’s shocking how much of a lucky escape I’ve actually had. It was hard at first to get my head around the fact my daughter could’ve ended up without a mum.’
Couzens – nicknamed ‘the rapist’ by colleagues – was sentenced to a whole life term at the Old Bailey last month.
The court heard that the diplomatic protection officer had contacted a woman with the username ‘escourtbabygirl’ – which she has now deleted – on an escort website in February.
The Mail tracked down the woman, who did not know Couzens’s identity at the time of their phone contact.
The call was made on the same day that the former Metropolitan Police officer took his wife and two children on a ‘family day out’ to the woodland where he had tried to destroy Miss Everard’s (pictured) body
Her profile had a series of graphic naked photos and a list of services, including sex for £80 an hour, spanking, domination and role play in uniforms. Many other acts were too graphic to be printed in a family newspaper.
The married woman, whose husband is aware of her work, said she initially missed Couzens’s call and did not reply to him to say she was available until the next week. She called him on her mobile, but did not receive a response or meet him.
The call girl told how she was ‘alarmed and scared’ when police called her, about a week after Miss Everard’s body was found on March 10 in an area of woodland Couzens owned near Ashford, Kent. ‘The detectives said they wanted to meet about Sarah Everard and I said I didn’t know her but they were really persistent so I met them in Dover with my husband,’ the escort said.
‘They said, “The bloke you’ve been speaking to is the bloke who took Sarah”. They wanted to know if I’d met him. They explained to me he was a police officer and that he’d kidnapped this girl and they told me not to tell anyone because of the ongoing investigation. They asked how I felt about it and wanted to make sure I was OK.’
The most shocking thing for the woman was when detectives looked at her phone and discovered that Couzens had called her just four days after he had raped and strangled Miss Everard with his police belt.
Couzens had tricked Miss Everard (a marketing executive) into hiring a car in Clapham. He used his police warrant card to get him handcuffed.
According to some reports, he may have burned her body before visiting the plot with his family.
The police also told the escort she had heard that Couzens had been using it for two years. He arranged to meet women both in London and Kent and asked her if any women had had sexual encounters.
Couzens, 48, who was known to use prostitutes, started messaging the escort in February, while he was planning the rape and kidnap of a woman – with Miss Everard becoming his eventual victim. Pictured: Hoads wood is searched by police officers
She said: ‘I didn’t know that he had phoned me until the police told me. I was able to see that he had called me on his mobile number, and I realized that he had missed my call.
‘I had even texted the number back two days later to see who it was but there was no reply. He was apparently arrested at that point.
‘It’s so sick that he called me four days after the murder and on a family day out. It’s like he kept getting pleasure from going back to the scene of the crime, but to take your kids there, it’s sick.
‘He breached his power as a police officer to kidnap a woman. You’re meant to be able to trust the police, but I’m now careful where male officers are concerned. Unless it’s a cop car, I wouldn’t get in.
‘I’m just glad that nothing went any further with him. He even contacted me before the murder.
‘I could have been in more danger then because he wanted to kill someone. Thinking that could have been me, that my life could have ended is very hard.’