SARAH Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, should be stripped of a £4,000 a year pension from the nuclear police, the mayor of London has said.
Sadiq Khan ex-police officer Couzens, 49, called for the loss of pension rights he acquired after seven and a half years in the civil nuclear police force.
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His service there makes him eligible for £4,000 a year from the age of 60.
The sex killer would also receive a lump sum payment of £12,000.
Couzens is said to have received a salary of up to £43,000 by the time he left the CNC to join the Met in 2018.
Current laws mean that police officers forfeit their pension rights only if they are convicted of a crime related to their job that causes a “serious loss of confidence in the public service”.
Mayor Khan had asked before Home office to withdraw Couzens’ pension, but it turned out that the fund had not moved and remained with the CNC, which he joined in 2011.
It means that the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the country’s nuclear research agency, is responsible for maintaining the killer’s pension fund.
Khan, 52, has written to the energy minister Grant Shapps and Minister of the Interior Suella Braverman to cancel Couzens’ CNC pension fund.
In the letter he writes: “I request your assurance that you will take all possible steps to ensure that Couzens is deprived of his pension.
“This is what the public would rightly expect.”
Mr Shapps agrees that Couzens should get nothing, saying his “terrible crime shook the nation”.
He told the Sunday Times he expected an urgent update on the killer’s pension arrangements.