Two Metropolitan Police officers have pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office after sharing photos of the bodies of two murdered sisters on WhatsApp.
PC Deniz Jaffer 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, appeared before Judge Mark Lucraft at the Old Bailey on Tuesday morning charged with committing misconduct in a public office between 7 June and 23 June last year.
The officers had been assigned to protect the scene in Wembley's Fryent County Park after sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found dead in bushes.
It is alleged that the officers took "non-official and inappropriate photographs" of the crime scene before sharing them on WhatsApp.
They were arrested as part of a criminal investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog.
The charge against them states 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 pair, attached to the Metropolitan Police's North East command unit, were both suspended from duty following their arrests on 22 June last year.
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