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Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Met PCs jailed for crime scene images Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Met PCs jailed for crime scene images
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Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found in bushes at Fryent Country Park in WembleyBibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found in bushes at Fryent Country Park in Wembley
Two Met Police constables who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups have each been jailed for two years and nine months. A pair of Met Police constables who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups have each been jailed for 33 months.
Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were killed in Wembley on 6 June 2020. PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were sent to guard the scene where the bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found in June 2020.
More follows. While at Fryent Country Park, they left their post to take photos of the women.
What the men did was a "betrayal of catastrophic proportions", the sisters' mother said in an impact statement.
Ms Henry, 46, and Ms Smallman, 27, had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday at the park in Wembley when they were repeatedly stabbed by Danyal Hussein.
Hussain, 19, from Blackheath, was found guilty of murdering them and jailed for a minimum of 35 years in October.
Jamie Lewis (left) and Deniz Jaffer had undermined trust and faith in the police, a judge at the Old Bailey said
At the sentencing hearing - both men had previously admitted misconduct in a public office - Judge Mark Lucraft QC rejected an appeal for the officers to be spared custody and condemned their "appalling and inexplicable conduct".
The men disregarded the victims' privacy for "a cheap thrill" or "some form of bragging rights", which undermined trust and faith in the police, the judge said.
In victim impact statements read out at the Old Bailey, family members described the defendants as a "disgrace" to the police family and to mankind.
The women's mother, Mina Smallman, said the pair's behaviour amounted to a "sacrilegious act".
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Mina Smallman says there is "no peace" without her daughters, Nicole and Bibaa, who were murdered last year
Last month, a Met Police tribunal heard Jaffer and Lewis had described the sisters as "dead birds".
During the night of 8 June, Jaffer took four pictures of their bodies in situ and Lewis took two, and superimposed his face on to one of them to create a "selfie-style" image.
Jaffer sent an inexperienced officer photographs of the sisters' bodies as they lay intertwined in the bushes.
He then showed images to two other officers, including a probationary officer he was supposed to be mentoring.
On 19 June, an anonymous tip-off about Lewis was given to the police watchdog. Jaffer was arrested three days later.
Both men have already been sacked by the Met Police.