Four murder fiends given life jail terms – including killer cop Wayne Couzens – rack up £600,000 in legal aid

FOUR murder fiends given whole-life jail terms were handed more than £600,000 in legal aid.

The monsters, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, clocked up the huge total as they sought softer punishments.

Figures obtained by The Sun on Sunday show cesspit killer Ian Stewart, 61 ran up the highest taxpayer-funded bill of £271,014.

He was jailed in 2017 for murdering his girlfriend, kids’ author Helen Bailey, 51, whose body he dumped in the cesspit at their Hertfordshire home.

He was then convicted of murdering his first wife.

His jail term was reduced on appeal to a 35-year minimum.

Coventry triple killer and rapist Anthony Russell, 39, ran up a bill of £185,525.

Morgue monster David Fuller, 67, got £115,411, the Legal Aid Agency figures reveal.

He was convicted last December of two sex killings in Kent, in 1987.

It emerged he recorded himself sexually abusing over 100 female corpses in a mortuary.

Met cop Couzens, who raped and strangled Sarah Everard, got £33,694 — set to rise as he failed to have his whole-life tariff reduced.

The agency said the aid “ensured justice was served”.