I was killer cop Wayne Couzens’ childhood pal – he tormented us with twisted mind games… but could I have stopped him? | The Sun
A FORMER childhood friend of Wayne Couzens has revealed how the evil PC played sick games with pals and got off on hurting innocent victims from an early age.
But Warwick Lewis, 50, says the killer cop was a “coward” who enlisted the help of a school bully to do his dirty work.
The ex-Metropolitan police officer raped and murdered Sarah Everard, 33, after abducting her from a South London street in March 2021 by staging a fake Covid arrest.
Dad-of-two Warwick, who is speaking out ahead of a new Channel 5 documentary, Wayne Couzens: Killer in Plain Sight, which airs tonight, admits he feels “physically sick” that Couzens went on to kill Sarah because he feels he could have done something to stop it.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, he says: “If I'd thought, ‘sod that’ when he turned on me and started fighting back, maybe it would have stopped that development of his character?
"We all look at our past and think, 'maybe if I'd done that differently, maybe I could have changed this or changed that or you know?'
"If he had never got the position that he did in the police force, he wouldn't have been in a position to use it as means to get somebody to surrender willingly.
"If I'd had the confidence to give him a hiding, then he maybe wouldn't have had the confidence to do that sort of stuff.
"These things go around in my head. It's almost like I felt there was something I could do to stop such an awful thing and it makes me feel physically sick.
"I will never know. I have given myself a mental slap for feeling that way."
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