KILLERS BECOME PALS MONSTER MATES
Couzens and Fuller strike up unlikely friendship
The idea of them swapping stories turns my
stomach
TWO of Britain’s most twisted murderers have become firm friends behind bars.
Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, is mates with David Fuller – who was dubbed the Morgue Monster for defiling the bodies of more than 100 dead women.
A source told how the pair bonded after being banged up on the same wing of HMP Frankland in Brasside, County Durham.
He said: “We call them The Odd Couple.”
Former Met officer Couzens, who worked as a mechanic before he joined the police, enjoys chats with electrician Fuller, who – like him – lived in Kent. Our source said: “They know some of the same areas from back in the day.
“The idea of them swapping stories turns my stomach.”
Couzens, 48, was handed a whole-life tariff last year after using his job as a cover to kidnap and rape marketing worker Sarah in Clapham, south London. Her murder in March 2021 sparked a national outcry and a fresh focus on ending violence against women.
Fuller, 67, was also jailed last year – for killing Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He was finally nailed for the so-called “bedsit murders” 33 years after committing the crimes, thanks to DNA advances.
Fuller was given two life sentences for the killings plus a further 12 years for abusing corpses at the hospital in Kent where he worked.
Officers who searched his home found Fuller had recorded himself defiling scores of bodies between 2008 and 2020.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has ordered a public inquiry into the morgue abuse scandal.
Couzens and Fuller are not the first fiends to become friends behind bars.
Karen Matthews – who in 2008 kidnapped her own daughter, Shannon, in a bid to get a £50,000 cash reward – struck up a friendship with convicted killer Bernadette Mcneilly in jail. The pair bonded after being banged up together at Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire – and even kept in touch when Matthews was freed during her eight-year sentence in 2012.
Murderer Mcneilly, 51, was released in 2015. She spent 21 years behind bars for setting fire to 16-year-old Suzanne Capper in 1992.
Meanwhile, paedophile Roy Whiting, 63 – who murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne in 2000 – is said to have become pals with child rapist Sidney Cooke, 94, at HMP Wakefield, West Yorks.
And black cab rapist John Worboys, 64, is said to have become friendly with Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield, 53.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said last night: “We do not comment on individual prisoners.”