Two Metropolitan Police officers who took and shared photos of two murdered sisters have been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison. Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, were assigned to guard the crime scene in Fryent Country Park, Wembley, where Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death in June 2020.
Instead of protecting the scene, the officers took photographs showing the victims' bodies and shared them in WhatsApp groups, referring to the women as “dead birds”. One group, called “the A team”, contained 41 police officers; another, including Jaffer's friends, was titled “Covid cunts”. The court heard that to capture the images, the officers had to enter the bush where the bodies lay, risking contamination of the crime scene.
Judge Mark Lucraft QC described the offences as “appalling” and done for a “cheap thrill”. The actions were a gross breach of trust that stripped the victims of dignity in death and intensified the family's suffering. The mother of the sisters, Mina Smallman, called it a “betrayal of such catastrophic proportion” and said it evoked images of lynchings in the Deep South, adding that the officers “dehumanised our children”.
Both former officers pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office. Jaffer resigned from the force in August, while Lewis was dismissed by a disciplinary tribunal. They will serve half their sentences before being released on licence. The murderer, Danyal Hussein, who was obsessed with Satan, is serving a life sentence for the killings.
