By Ashley Young-
Two police officers have been charged with misconduct in public office in connection with inappropriate photographs taken of two sisters stabbed to death in Kingsbury.
The sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park on June 7.
The sisters were killed in the early hours of June 6 last year, after they were the last people left at an outdoor celebration celebrating Bibaa’s birthday on June 5.
It is alleged inappropriate photographs of the sisters were taken at the crime scene and shared on WhatsApp.
PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 32, based on the North East Command, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 27 for their first hearing both charged with one count of misconduct in public office.
Both officers are from Forest Gate police station in the borough of Newham.
The alleged offences took place at the scene of the stabbings at Fryent Country Park in the early hours of 6 June, after the women had been celebrating Ms Henry’s birthday.
The attack, when the women were stabbed in the early hours of the morning, was described by prosecutors as “unprovoked and random”.
Danyal Hussein was charged with their murders and possession of an offensive weapon.
The sisters’ mother, Mina Smallman, the Church of England’s first female archdeacon of black and minority ethnic descent, has previously said she believes their race meant their deaths were not taken seriously, and their murders did not receive the same reaction as the killing of Sarah Everard
The charges were made following a review of a file of evidence from the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The specific details of the inappropriate pictures have not been revealed.
On June 17 the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) was informed of allegations that “non-official and inappropriate photographs had been taken by police at the crime scene” in the park, in relation to the fatal stabbings.
The news is a shocking disgrace to the Met Police by demented officers who should never have been in the force in the first instance.