'I'm in a dark place': Disturbing footage of self-harmed Wayne Couzens writhing around in custody as he whinges about HIS mental health after killing Sarah Everard

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Disturbing footage shows a self-harmed Wayne Couzens writhing around in custody whinging about his own mental health after killing Sarah Everard. 

The monster cop is wearing grey custody clothing as he rocks from side to side while being quizzed by detectives about his involvement in the marketing executive’s disappearance. 

A white square bandage is on Couzens’ forehead which appears to be covering a wound from a self-harming incident that took place at Wandsworth police station, in London.

Having been deemed medically fit to be interviewed, chilling custody footage shows him hunched over behind a protective screen with the sleeves of his jumper rolled over his hands.

The killer cop moves his head from one side to the other and looks away as he says ‘I’m in a dark place’ after being asked how he is feeling at the moment. 

Evil killer cop Wayne Couzens stares at a picture of Sarah Everard as it is held up to a protective screen while he is being quizzed by detectives at Wandsworth police station in London

Evil killer cop Wayne Couzens stares at a picture of Sarah Everard as it is held up to a protective screen while he is being quizzed by detectives at Wandsworth police station in London

The monster cop moves his head from one side to the other and looks away as he says 'I'm in a dark place' after being asked how he is feeling at the moment.

The monster cop moves his head from one side to the other and looks away as he says ‘I’m in a dark place’ after being asked how he is feeling at the moment.

The eerie clip is shown in new BBC documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice.

READ MORE: Why DID police take so long to unmask Wayne Couzens? As new Sarah Everard documentary shows detectives’ shock – the missed chances to spot Met had future killer in its ranks

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During the interview Couzens is shown a picture of the 33-year-old he had kidnapped, raped, and murdered eight days earlier in south London.

He briefly stares at the image and leans in as it is held up against the protective screen as a female detective asks him if he recognises the person in the picture. 

Couzens then shuts his eyes and rocks from side to side and replies ‘no comment’ when asked ‘who is that, Wayne?’.

The evil killer shows no emotion as it is revealed to him the picture is of Sarah Everard and answers ‘no comment’ again as he is asked if he used his warrant card to lure her into his hired car. 

He rolls his head around as the detective says to him: ‘Is that how she trusted you? Because obviously as a police officer we know we are in a position… people trust us, don’t they? 

‘People trust us to look after them. People trust us to help them. Protect and serve, that’s what they say. We all took that oath. You included.’ 

Yesterday, former detective Nick Harvey spoke of his shock at finding out Couzens was a colleague minutes before he knocked on his door.

Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Couzens on March 3 2021

Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Couzens on March 3 2021

The eerie clip is shown in new BBC documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice which features an interview with the lead investigating detective Katherine Goodwin (pictured)

The eerie clip is shown in new BBC documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice which features an interview with the lead investigating detective Katherine Goodwin (pictured)

Wayne Couzens was giving a rare whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard

Wayne Couzens was giving a rare whole-life sentence for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard

He said ‘the pit of my stomach just fell out’ when he found out who the chief suspect in Sarah’s disappearance was as he parked up near his home in Kent.

He told BBC Woman’s Hour his team was tasked to research Couzens so they could locate him.

READ MORE HERE: Sarah Everard’s family believe she died because Wayne Couzens was a police officer as they slam forces for missing warning signs throughout his career

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But as he ‘literally turned off his engine’ to his car in Deal he received a bombshell phonecall from Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin who told him Couzens was a serving Met police officer.

Officers arrived at Couzens’ home at 5.45pm, but did not knock on his door until two hours later. During this time Couzens had wiped his mobile phone of all of its data.

Scotland Yard has refused to tell MailOnline what officers were doing during this time as it is an ‘operational detail’, while it is not known the exact time it was unearthed Couzens was a police officer, nor when Mr Harvey joined his colleagues.

While CCTV showed the sex offender flashing his penis inside a McDonald’s in Clapham just hours before he kidnapped and murdered the marketing executive on March 3, 2021.

Mr Harvey, who left the force after serving for 17 years, told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour host Emma Barnett about receiving the news that was a ‘huge moment in history’.

‘[I found out Couzens was a police officer] A couple of minutes before we knocked on the door,’ he said.

‘Initially I had tasked my team with a series of research to make sure we could actually locate him. DCI Goodwin was conducting her own research separately.

‘I arrived in Deal to brief my team around what we were doing and how we were going to go about it and as I pulled up as no sooner as I had turned up and literally turned off the engine of my car did DCI Goodwin ring me and break the news to me.’

The documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice will be shown on BBC One on Tuesday, March 5

The documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice will be shown on BBC One on Tuesday, March 5

DCI Goodwin (pictured) revealed the shocking moment she realised Couzens worked for the police in a new documentary

DCI Goodwin (pictured) revealed the shocking moment she realised Couzens worked for the police in a new documentary

Couzens (pictured) was given a whole life sentence at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to kidnap, rape and murder

Couzens (pictured) was given a whole life sentence at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to kidnap, rape and murder

He said he felt ‘awful’ and ‘the pit of my stomach just sort of fell out’, as the gravity of the situation began to dawn on him.

READ MORE: Never-before-seen photos of Sarah Everard that show her beaming at a university graduation and relaxing by a pool are revealed in BBC documentary about her murder
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‘It was immediately and abundantly clear how much this was going to change policing and what a huge moment in history it was going to be,’ Mr Harvey added.

‘It’s something that sadly… murder is too common in our society but you could see the difference of what it was going to mean for the UK.’

Couzens ‘went grey’ when Mr Harvey identified himself and at that point the ex-cop knew he ‘was directly involved’ in Sarah’s disappearance.

He then had to keep his emotions in check as he conducted an ‘urgent interview’ to try and persuade the killer to reveal where the 33-year-old was.

Mr Harvey said it had been ‘really challenging’ to process what had happened three years ago and since he left the force.

‘I’ve got a lot of pride in what I’ve achieved and the work that I’ve done I’ve always tried to do the very best I could do and to know that’s actively undermined by a section of policing is awful,’ he said.

Former Met Police detective of 17 years, Nick Harvey (pictured), said he only found out Couzens was a colleague 'minutes before we knocked on his door'

Former Met Police detective of 17 years, Nick Harvey (pictured), said he only found out Couzens was a colleague ‘minutes before we knocked on his door’

Sarah was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens

Sarah was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens

Sarah, 33, a marketing executive was killed in 2021 with a new BBC documentary airing this week

Sarah, 33, a marketing executive was killed in 2021 with a new BBC documentary airing this week

‘It’s a fraction unfortunately of what Sarah’s family have ever had to go through as a result of it. It pales into insignificance really.’

In the documentary, Miss Goodwin revealed the police discovered Couzens was suspected of an indecent exposure offence days earlier in Kent, before they found out he was a serving Metropolitan Police officer.

READ MORE: Sarah Everard detective reveals chilling moment she discovered that her killer Wayne Couzens was a serving Met cop

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Miss Goodwin said they discovered this after Sarah and Couzens were spotted on CCTV footage next to a car, which led to his identification.

She said: ‘At that time, Wayne Couzens was a name that meant nothing to any of us. So immediately we start researching the name, also the phone number and the address that had been given when he’d hired the car.

The detective added that when it was discovered he was suspected of indecent exposure, it ‘suddenly changed everything, because whilst I might have hoped that Sarah had got into the car with someone she knew, suddenly it was clear to me that she’d got into the car of an alleged sex offender’.

The officer sent a team to Couzens’ house in Kent to question him and, while officers were en route, a detective ran into Miss Goodwin’s office, shut the door, and told her ‘you need to hear this’.

A researcher on the phone then revealed that Couzens was a serving Met officer.

Miss Goodwin said: ‘I knew that I had to tell my boss and I can just remember the shock of having to just sit on the floor of the office and say to her, ‘You’re not going to believe this, that he’s a police officer’.

‘And then the same questions went through her head as went through my head, “Are you sure?”.

Officers arrived at Couzens’ home at 5.45pm, but did not knock on his door until two hours later. During this time Couzens had wiped his mobile phone of all of its data.

A recently published damning report found there were repeated missed opportunities to stop Couzens that left him able to stay in the police despite being a serial sex offender with a reputation for disturbing sexual behaviour that led to a nickname of ‘the Rapist’.

The Met police has always maintained it found no evidence of him being given the ‘repugnant nickname’ while he worked for another force.

An inquiry found Couzens’ history of alleged sexual offending dated back nearly 20 years before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah in Clapham, south London.

The married father of two was reported to police eight times for indecent exposure between 2008 and 2021 but was able to continue in the police due to ‘lethargic and inadequate’ investigations, a 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.

It emerged for the first time that Couzens, now 51, allegedly carried out a ‘very serious sexual assault of a child barely into her teens’ while he was in his twenties.

The internal report, commissioned in the wake of Sarah Everard 's murder by Met officer Wayne Couzens, shows officers are not logging information about hundreds of reported sex offences that could help to identify trends or linked attacks

The internal report, commissioned in the wake of Sarah Everard ‘s murder by Met officer Wayne Couzens, shows officers are not logging information about hundreds of reported sex offences that could help to identify trends or linked attacks

A recently published damning report found there were repeated missed opportunities to stop Couzens (Pictured: Sarah Everard)

A recently published damning report found there were repeated missed opportunities to stop Couzens (Pictured: Sarah Everard)

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.

Lady Elish found the married father of two ‘could and should’ have been 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.

READ MORE: Wayne Couzens should never have been allowed to join the police and chances to stop him were repeatedly missed, damning inquiry finds – as family of murdered Sarah Everard say she died because he was a police officer

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Both Kent and the Metropolitan Police were criticised for inadequate investigations into claims of indecent exposure against Couzens.

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.’

Today, Sadiq Khan will pledge to drive through cultural reforms in the Metropolitan Police to restore trust in the force after the damning report about missed chances to stop Sarah’s killer.

After the third anniversary of Sarah’s death, the mayor of London will open the latest London Policing Board by expressing his ‘deepest sympathies’ to her loved ones, and labelling Lady Elish’s report ‘one of the most shattering accounts of failure in British policing history’.

‘Knowing that a police officer harboured the capacity for such sadistic violence still haunts our city,’ Mr Khan will say.

‘It’s a perpetual reminder of why we’re here and the importance of this board.

‘Our task is one of the most urgent facing London today: to ensure we drive through the wide-ranging cultural and performance reforms needed within the Met, to ensure that we support and challenge the commissioner in his mission – so that we can renew trust and confidence in policing in our capital.

‘Whilst the Met is now on the path to fundamental reform, we’re clearly not there yet.

‘I see police reform as a critical part of my mayoralty, and we must not be satisfied until Londoners have the police service they deserve.’

The board will hear from Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley about progress on addressing the findings and recommendations of the Casey Review, which was commissioned by the Met after Ms Everard’s murder.

It found the force was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist, and that there might be more officers like Couzens in its ranks.

Couzens was given a rare whole-life sentence for the rape and murder of Sarah. It means he will die in prison.