Two Metropolitan Police officers are as a result of seem in court over allegations they shared footage of a double murder scene on WhatsApp.
Pc Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Pc Jamie Lewis, 32, have every been charged with a single depend of misconduct in public workplace over the photographs of sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46.
The two girls have been stabbed to loss of life at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, in the early hours of June 6 final 12 months.
Social employee Ms Henry, from Brent in north-west London, and photographer Ms Smallman, from Harrow in north-west London, had met mates the earlier night to have fun the elder sister’s birthday.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) carried out a prison investigation into allegations that the officers took “non-official and inappropriate pictures” of the crime scene earlier than sharing them on WhatsApp.
Jaffer and Lewis have been each suspended from obligation following their arrests on June 22 final 12 months and charged final month.
They are anticipated to look at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
Danyal Hussein, 18, of Guy Barnett Grove, Blackheath, south-east London, is dealing with trial in June accused of the sisters’ murders.
