Couzens is said to be a ‘unique’ target in jail as a rapist former police officer
Sarah Everard’s murderer Wayne Couzens will live in constant fear of serious attack from fellow prisoners, according to an ex-inmate.He faces serving aunder threat of being stabbed, maimed or scalded with boiling water, prison magazine Inside Time’s commissioning editor Noel Smith said.
Even ‘petty thieves’ will be queuing up to get at Couzens, who yesterday at the Old Bailey was told he would die behind bars for murdering the 33-year-old. The killer police officer will be assessed at Belmarsh prison in London before he likely enters a network of five highest security prisons.Inside Belmarsh category A high security jail in Woolwich, London Smith, a reformed robber who spent 11 years in jail, said: ‘When you’re doing life, you never move down a category so you’re always with the worst offenders.
‘People will be queueing up to get at him, right down to the petty thief who wants to make a name for himself.’ Married dad-of-two Couzens was twice taken to hospital with head injuries in March after charging at the walls while being held in cells for questioning, and had to be put on suicide watch.
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