Wayne Couzens‘ marital home has gone on the market for £280,000 – complete with a hot tub he built in the back garden, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The shamed Met Police officer, 52, who is serving a whole life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021, lived there with wife Olena for five years.
The couple paid £200,000 for the three-bedroom terrace house in 2016, taking out a mortgage with Nat West Bank, records show.
Couzens was arrested at the house in Deal, Kent, by police investigating the brutal killing of Sarah, 33, in a crime that shocked the nation – and left his wife and two children stunned.
The disgraced former police officer had handcuffed and ‘arrested’ Sarah in fake Covid patrol in March 2021, as she walked home through Clapham Common after visiting a friend for dinner.
He bundled her into a car, then raped and murdered her, eventually driving to remote woods near Ashford, where he burnt her body and dumped her remains in a pond, with police making the grim discovery six days later.
The property is described by estate agents as an ‘ideal terraced family house, spacious throughout with three double bedrooms and ample living space’.
It goes on: ‘The rear garden is a great size and overlooks fields behind. To the front there is a blocked paved driveway and garage.
Wayne Couzens’ marital home has gone on the market for £280,000 – complete with a hot tub he built in the back garden (pictured)
The property is described by estate agents as an ‘ideal terraced family house, spacious throughout with three double bedrooms and ample living space’
Shamed Met police officer, Wayne, Couzens 52, is serving a whole life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021
‘The property has been well cared for and has a modern kitchen bathroom and log burner.’
The description makes no mention of the hot tub that Couzens built, but in pictures illustrating the house, the timber surround can clearly be seen in the back garden.
Other images show a neat and tidy interior with books on shelves and a board game under the table, as well as magnets on the fridge door and a large telescope in the kitchen.
The house was put up for sale earlier this year for £300,000 but the price was later reduced by £20,000 after failing to attract interest, despite being close to local amenities, schools and the train station.
Ukrainian born Olena was often seen by neighbours walking the family’s two pet French bulldogs Napoleon and Josephine and was described as ‘warm and friendly’ by locals, who added she ‘kept a low profile’.
Following Couzens arrest in 2021, Olena told the Daily Mail she had kept asking herself ‘Why?’ adding that it was ‘not human behaviour’.
She went on: ‘If I had any idea what was going on in Wayne’s head, then none of this would’ve happened but I didn’t know anything.
Wayne Couzens being interviewed by police as he sits on the sofa at home. At first he denied knowing Sarah Everard
The kitchen shows magnets on the fridge door and a large telescope in the corner as well as family dining table
The cream-coloured kitchen follows through to the back garden and the listing describes it ‘well cared for’ and ‘modern’
The bedroom features a double bed with built-in grey cupboards and wardrobes around it
Couzens’ wife Olena (pictured) previously confessed she couldn’t understand why her husband carried out the brutal attack
‘He didn’t appear to be acting strangely. I didn’t notice anything was wrong. I’m working full time, most of the time I’m dropping the children off at school and picking them up, I have a really busy lifestyle.
‘I can’t comprehend it because he never once previously showed any glimpse of violence, he was never that way. I’m just as puzzled as everyone else.
‘I saw nothing wrong. He had a beautiful family, a good house… what else did he need? I’m constantly asking myself “where I did miss the signs? How on earth could this have happened?’
Couzens was jailed at the Old Baily in September 2021 and trial judge Lord Justice Fulford told him: ‘Your wife and children, who on all the evidence, are entirely blameless, will have to live with the ignominy of your dreadful crimes for the rest of their lives.’
Sarah (pictured) was raped and murdered after Couzens arrested her in fake Covid patrol in March 2021, as she walked home through Clapham Common after visiting a friend for dinner
Couzens drove to remote woods near Ashford (pictured), where he burnt her body and dumped her remains in a pond, with police making the grim discovery six days later
Shortly after his arrest Olena visited him in prison where he was on remand and he cried and apologised to her and it is thought to be the last time she saw him, although it is not known if they have divorced.
Couzens is serving his sentence at HMP Frankland and last month it emerged he had been taken to hospital for a back operation that cost tax payers £17,000.
Tory shadow Justice Minister Robert Jenrick questioned the operation, calling Couzens’ one of the most despicable criminals in our jails’ who ‘should not be given any special treatment.’
