Eleanor Neale

In his first year with the Met Police, Wayne was a part of a safer neighbourhoods team in South London.

And that's the kind of role that's there to give the community reassurance that they are protected.

which is brutally ironic in retrospect of this case.

Then in 2020, he became a part of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.

It's a high-level position with a hell of a lot of responsibility.

I mean, he is literally guarding and protecting some of the most important people and important buildings in our country.

Motherfucker was given firearms for this position, and he was usually stationed at the Palace of Westminster and the embassies surrounding it.

Then in 2020, when the pandemic hit, several existing officers were tasked with COVID patrols.

They would be out and about making sure that people were sticking to the enforced curfew and the increasingly complicated rules.

And even though Wayne was working his way up in the police force, a job that he had literally dreamed of, a job that granted him all the power and all the control that he could ever want, he was still willing to risk that to gratify his depraved sexual desires.

In February 2021, not even a week before he came into contact with Sarah Everard, Wayne Cousins

was still committing acts of indecent exposure he drove up to a mcdonald's drive-thru and while he collected his order he exposed himself to at least two of the women working there in fact there were multiple reports i'm not sure if all of the women saw him but there were more than two reports about this incident

and this kind of thing like indecent exposure forcing someone to see you naked that kind of thing makes me feel so physically sick these women are just trying to do their jobs and they're being sexually harassed and traumatized while their guard is down and while they're expected to be polite and calm and normal and he is forcing them into an interaction like this

now these women took his license plate down they even got his bank card information from his order that he had just made and it was all reported to the police but absolutely nothing was done about it police had his name but wayne wasn't followed up on he wasn't given a warning nothing was put on his file

for committing a crime like that, he should have lost his job.

He should have been kicked off the whole police force and banned from ever being allowed to serve or protect ever again.

But that didn't happen.

Indecent exposure is often dismissed as a low level and maybe less concerning offence, but criminologists warn that it can be a red flag for escalation.

A leading homicide specialist and professor said,

Flashing is an act of sexual aggression.