Revealed, vile texts police sent alongside dead sisters’ photos
As two officers lose jobs over taking shots of murdered women...
TWO police officers were sacked yesterday for photographing the bodies of sisters they dubbed ‘dead birds with stab wounds’.
Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, were assigned to guard the crime scene where Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were killed.
Instead they took photographs of the bloodied bodies, which they sent – along with vile messages – to fellow officers and members of the public.
Yesterday it emerged that Jaffer, a former high-flying banker, had also sent racist messages to colleagues about ‘P***s’. In a further insult to the family of the victims, the two officers failed to show up at their disciplinary hearing, where they were found to have committed gross misconduct in public office.
Helen Ball, who chaired the hearing in west London yesterday, apologised on behalf of the Met.
‘I am sorry our officers behaved in such a hurtful, disrespectful and criminal way. Their actions are shameful,’ said the assistant commissioner. Their ‘thoughtlessness and lack of professionalism’, she added, could have compromised the hunt for the killer.
The victims’ mother, Mina Smallman, has called for Metropolitan Police chief Dame Cressida Dick to ‘carry the can’ for the force’s failings in the case.
Her daughters were discovered dead on June 7 last year after being attacked by Danyal Hussein, a 19WhatsApp year-old devil worshipper, at Fryent Country Park in Wembley.
The two officers were sent to the murder scene at around 3.30am the next day and were positioned at the inner cordon, close to the bodies which had been hidden in bushes.
Lewis messaged colleagues at 3.45am to say: ‘Unfortunately I am sat next to the two dead birds with stab wounds.’
Jaffer then risked contaminating the crime scene by going inside the cordon to take photographs, telling others: ‘I am here we tried to take pictures of the two dead birds.’
At 4.42am, Lewis sent Jaffer a picture of his face superimposed on an image with the victims visible in the background.
Jaffer shared four images in a group which included members of the public. Lewis shared two. The pair were reported by a colleague who received the messages and witnessed them strolling around the crime scene.
In an unrelated public order matter, Jaffer twice used a racial slur, it emerged yesterday.
In a message sent to a group including members of the public, he claimed the benefits of moving to work in a new area of the capital were ‘on the plus side, no P***s’. Lewis replied: ‘Exactly.’
Jaffer, who was a senior vice president in client services at Citibank, had posted pictures of himself in a blackface costume on a Facebook account.
Lewis will be dismissed from the Metropolitan Police immediately, and Jaffer, who has already quit, would have been sacked without notice had he still been a serving officer. Both will be barred from work at any other police forces.
The pair, who worked in the northeast area command unit of the Met, already face jail after admitting committing misconduct in public office earlier this month. They will be sentenced on December 6.
Hussein is serving a life sentence for the murders.
‘Contaminating the crime scene’