Two Metropolitan Police officers plead guilty to sharing selfies with two murdered sisters
Met Police officers, 47 and 33, shared SIX pictures of murdered sisters on WhatsApp before one superimposed his face in front of the victims’ bodies – after they had been assigned to protect the crime scene
PCs Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 32, admitted wrongdoing and said sorryThe two police officers had both been charged with misconduct in public officeThey were in court after an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation
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Two Metropolitan Police officers have admitted sharing photos of two murdered sisters on WhatsApp – with one superimposing his own face onto one of their bodies.
Pc Deniz Jaffer and Pc Jamie Lewis were assigned to protect the scene after sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found dead in bushes in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London.
Instead, they breached the cordon to take ‘inappropriate’ and ‘unauthorised’ photographs of the bodies, which were then shared on WhatsApp.
Jaffer took four photographs and Lewis took two and one of the images sent to a female colleague had Lewis’s face superimposed onto it, it can now be reported.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, the officers admitted committing misconduct in a public office between June 7 and June 23 last year.
The Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft bailed the officers ahead of sentence on a date to be fixed.
He said: ‘The essential part of your duty was to remain at your posts and to preserve the integrity of the crime scene.
‘You took photographs of the crime scene.. You superimposed the head over another.’
Jaffer, 47, of Hornchurch, east London, and Lewis, 33, from Colchester, Essex, had been arrested as part of a criminal investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog.
The charge against each of them stated that ‘without authorisation he entered a crime scene he had been assigned to protect, sending information about his attendance at the scene to members of the public via WhatsApp and taking photographs of the crime scene’.
The sisters’ mother Mina Smallman, who has described the officers as ‘despicable’, sat in court for the hearing.
Both PC Jamie Lewis and PC Deniz Jaffer admitted misconduct in public office before court
Unmasked: PC Jaffer, 47, was charged with misconduct in a public office over the pictures
Mina Smallman, mother of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, at court this morning
The pair, attached to the Met’s North East command unit, were both suspended from duty following their arrests on June 22 last year.
Jaffer, of Hornchurch, east London, and Lewis, from Colchester, Essex, are on unconditional bail.
On Thursday the mother of Ms Henry and Ms Smallman vowed to stop him ever being released from prison.
Mina Smallman said justice had been done for her ‘beautiful girls’ as their ‘deluded’ killer was locked up for at least 35 years.
Mrs Smallman had looked on while Danyal Hussein sat with his back to the court as he was jailed for life via video link from Belmarsh prison.
Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, who were stabbed to death in Wembley last year
Murderer: Danyal Hussein, 19, who killed sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, seen here in his police mugshot
The sisters (above), who had been celebrating Ms Henry’s birthday with friends, were found the following day by Ms Smallman’s boyfriend
Mina Smallman, mother of the two victims looking on as Danyal Hussein appears in the dock at the Old Bailey, where he would try to intimidate and provoke her. She refused and would smile and wink back
Speaking outside the Old Bailey, in central London, Mrs Smallman condemned the 19-year-old, who had stabbed her daughters to death after making a pact with a devil.
On his behaviour in court, she said: ‘It’s all a performance. There is nothing wrong with him. He’s just an obnoxious human being.’
She went on: ‘He is a broken human being who, if he had not been caught, four other families may have been suffering what we have.
‘Well he ain’t out there now and I think he is so deluded, come 35 years’ time they will not let him out.
‘I will not let them.’
Mrs Smallman went on: ‘There will be no celebrations here but justice has been done.’
She called for a review of the law, after the court heard that Hussein could not be handed a whole life order because of his youth.
She praised the Metropolitan Police for bringing Hussein to justice, saying she did not ‘cast a whole organisation by one particular sort of incident’.
But in the wake of a critical police watchdog report on the handling of the sisters’ missing persons report, she said there was an ‘underground that has infiltrated and is growing in our Metropolitan Police’.
She also thanked the media who had followed the case, saying: ‘Everybody is worth knowing about.’
On her daughters, she said: ‘They were beautiful, beautiful girls.
‘Bibaa left behind a daughter who has given birth to a son in the last year and I am a great grandmother.’
She said Ms Henry had been an ‘amazing’ social worker but she grieved for her younger daughter Ms Smallman more because ‘she had 20 years less than Bibaa’.
She added: ‘Good girls – I’m really proud of them.’
