‘Get the rot out of the police once and for all’
Call by murdered sisters’ mother after photo shame
THE devastated mother of two murdered sisters photographed by PCs as they lay dead has called on the Metropolitan Police to “get the rot out once and for all”.
PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, took snaps of tragic Bibaa Henry and Nicole and shared them with colleagues.
Lewis’s face was superimposed on to one of the victims in one image.
The pair took a total of six photos and posted them to a WhatsApp group called “The A Team” of 40 officers.
The PCs admitted misconduct in a public office yesterday at the Old Bailey – where they were told they almost certainly face jail.
Outside the court, the sisters’ mum Mina Smallman said: “You need to drill down and get the rot out once and for all.
“You are not above the law, you are not going to be protected.”
Asked if Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick should resign, she replied: “I do not think that is the right thing to
do. Kicking people out does not fix the problem. Keep her in the position and get her to do the job.”
But she criticised Dame Cressida for her “shoddy way of behaving”, saying: “She has not contacted us to say sorry.”
Mrs Smallman added: “And it’s shameful the Independent Office for Police Conduct had to tell the Met they should apologise to us in their failings for the missing persons investigation.”
The two officers were tasked with protecting the scene in June 2020 after Bibaa, 46, and Nicole, 27, were found stabbed to death in bushes at Fryent Country Park in north-west London.
But Jaffer, of Hornchurch, east London, and Lewis, from Colchester, Essex, instead took “inappropriate” photos.
Judge Mark Lucraft bailed them until sentencing next month, warning: “It is extremely likely you will receive custodial sentences of some length.”
Satanist Danyal Hussein, 19, must serve at least 35 years for the murders.