Wayne Couzens was nicknamed “The Rapist” three years before joining the Met.

Sarah Everard’s killer was reportedly nicknamed “The Rapist” and was said to have been driving around naked in 2015, three years before he was hired at the Met.

Wayne Couzens’ former colleagues at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), where he joined in March 2011, reportedly gave him the nickname because he made some female officers uncomfortable, reports The Sun.

It also emerged that Kent Police had received a complaint from a male motorist that during the time Couzens was volunteering in 2015, a man was seen driving around Dover naked from the waist down.

The incident is being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after Kent Police failed to take action.

The IOPC also revealed that Couzens had been accused of flashing on two other occasions, amid concerns it had not been properly investigated by the Met in the days before Ms Everard’s murder.

The Met is facing calls to investigate how Couzens was able to continue serving as a civil servant despite questions being raised about his conduct.

Couzens was a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit when he raped and murdered Ms Everard on March 3 and was given permission to carry a firearm.

While working on the CNC, he also armed himself with a Heckler & Koch G36 rifle.

Couzens, a father of two, pleaded guilty to Ms Everard’s murder on Friday.

His wife, Elena Couzens, said what her husband did was “not humane” but she had discovered no “signs” that he was capable of committing such heinous crimes.

Couzens, 48, chased Ms Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, as she walked home alone.

He used a rental car to kidnap her before strangling her and dumping her body in a landfill normally used for construction waste.

Couzens admitted kidnapping and raping Ms Everard at a hearing last month before pleading guilty to murder at the Old Bailey on Friday.

He now faces a life sentence.

Met police commissioner Cressida Dick publicly apologized to Ms Everard’s family, who were present at the court hearing.

She said: “All of us at the Met are shocked, angry and devastated by this man’s crimes – they are terrible. “Everyone who works in the police feels betrayed.”

The Met has been contacted for comment.

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