Two Metropolitan Police officers have admitted taking and sharing photographs of the bodies of two sisters who were murdered in north-west London.
PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, distributed the images of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman after their deaths in Fryent Country Park.
They breached a cordon to take “inappropriate” pictures of the bodies, which were then shared on WhatsApp.
Jaffer took four photographs and Lewis took two both officers have now admitted misconduct in Public Office.
An investigation found that while on duty manning a cordon in the Wembley park on 8 June 2020, the pair left their posts and approached the sisters’ bodies – risking contamination of the crime scene – to take the photographs.
Lewis, from Colchester, edited one of the pictures by superimposing his own face on to the photograph with the victims in the background.
He sent that image to Jaffer, from Hornchurch in east London, who then forwarded it unsolicited to a female officer also present at the scene, the court heard.
The victims’ mother, Mina Smallman, who has condemned the officers as “Despicable 1 and Despicable 2”, was in court for the hearing, where Judge Mark Lucraft QC granted Jaffer and Lewis conditional bail.
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