Eleanor Neale

Even in the aftermath of this case, more women came forward with allegations and reports of previous encounters with Wayne Cousins.

They had seen his face on the news related to this case and they had finally recognised that he was their attacker as well.

So many more indecent exposure incidents were reported and even an attempted kidnapping at knife point from 1995.

One woman had been carrying that with her for decades and finally she had a name to pin to her traumatic memory.

I do need to clarify that Wayne Cousins has never been charged or convicted of anything in relation to that allegation.

An allegation is

All it is right now, at least.

But what is incredibly clear is that there is a pattern of sexual deviance that was never taken seriously enough to stop Wayne Cousins in his tracks.

He was allowed to simmer in his sick actions and even escalate to the point of murder all while clocking in for his high power job.

And I'm not entirely sure where to add this into the episode, so I guess I'll just say it now.

One or two of his old friends came forward to say that Wayne had always been

a weird and perverted person.

Back when he was in his 20s, he was dating teenagers as young as 14.

A fully grown legal adult dating a child.

It's horrifying to see just how far back these patterns go.

Oh, and also he was discovered to have been in possession of indecent images of children at some point in his life.

I don't know if they were in his possession at the time of his arrest,

but this is what an inquiry found later on.

I believe there were multiple different inquiries done internally within the police and issued by the government to dig into the workings of the Met Police and all the other institutions that Cousins had worked for in his life in order to figure out how the hell this could have happened.

12 different gross misconduct or misconduct notices were issued to different officers as a result of these inquiries.