On Monday, two police officers were sentenced for photographing two murdered sisters at a crime scene in London.
After the 46 and 27-year-old victims were discovered dead in a bush in Fryent Country Park, Wembley, north-west London, police constables Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were assigned to guard the crime scene overnight.
Instead, they broke through the cordon to take inappropriate and unauthorised photos of the bodies, which they then shared on WhatsApp.
Lewis even inserted his face into a photograph of the victims in the background.
He sent the doctored image to Jaffer, who passed it on to a female officer on the scene.
Jaffer then showed one of the photos to a male officer as they exited the park and sent others to three WhatsApp friends.
Lewis, who used derogatory and sexist language, also shared crime scene photos with the A Team, a WhatsApp group of 40-plus officers.
Following their arrests on June 22, 2020, the pair, who were assigned to the Metropolitan Police’s North East command unit, were suspended from duty.
Jaffer, 47, of Hornchurch, east London, and Lewis, 33, of Colchester, Essex, both pleaded guilty to public office misconduct.
Judge Mark Lucraft would sentence them at the Old Bailey on Monday.
Previously, the sisters’ mother requested that the Metropolitan Police Department exterminate the rot once and for all.
Previously, a tribunal determined that the officers had engaged in gross misconduct.
Lewis was fired from the Metropolitan Police immediately, and Jaffer would have been fired as well if he hadn’t already left the force.