Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Met PCs jailed for crime scene imageson December 6, 2021 at 4:42 pm

Two Met officers who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups have each been jailed for two years and nine months.

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.

While at Fryent Country Park, they left their post to take images 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.

At the sentencing hearing – both men had previously admitted misconduct in a public office – prosecutor Joel Smith said the officers had committed a “gross breach of trust”.

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 officers’ actions were a “sacrilegious act”.

Last month, a Met Police tribunal heard Jaffer and Lewis described the sisters as “dead birds”.

During the night of 8 June, Jaffer took four pictures of the bodies in situ and Lewis took two, and superimposed his face on to one of them to create the “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 officers have already been sacked by the Met Police.