Met (London)

An inquest has found that police failings probably contributed to deaths at the hands of the serial killer. The victims’ families speak out Anthony Walgate was a young man who liked to dream big. Even as a schoolboy in Hull he had ambitions to start his own clothing label, to get rich and famous, and […] […]

Stephen Merchant has criticised the British police for failings in its investigation into serial killer Stephen Port, the real-life murderer Merchant plays in the BBC drama Four Lives. Port, who was dubbed the “Grindr Killer”, used the gay dating app to target younger men. His crimes were committed in 2014 and 2015. Earlier this month, […] […]

People from Camden and Islington have been charged with bribery offences along with a former Metropolitan police officer. Ex-officer Frank Partridge, 48, was joined by seven co-defendants at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on December 21. They all faced a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery. Co-defendants include Hassan Serdoud, 54, and Anna Ginandes, 44, both of Fellows Road […] […]

Three victims of the serial killer Stephen Port might still be alive today were it not for a shoddy police investigation that was the result of “ineptitude, poor systems and underfunding”, the producer of a new drama about the crimes has said. Jeff Pope is senior producer of Four Lives, a dramatisation for BBC One […] […]

A Met Police officer who has now resigned has faced a misconduct hearing for the possession of Class A drugs. The panel found former PC Dalphinis had committed gross misconduct for possessing MDMA and, were he still serving, would have been dismissed. He was found with half a tablet of ecstasy and admitted that he […] […]

Police Constable Will Scott-Barrett, who is based in the MPS’s Intelligence command, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today (December 20). He was charged on Tuesday, November 16 following an investigation by the MPS’s Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Command. The charge relates to an allegation made in February 2021, and relates to conduct […] […]

A serving Metropolitan Police officer who was found to have breached confidentiality has kept his job with a written warning for gross misconduct. PC Christopher Bates, of the North West Command Unit, was given a final written warning following a misconduct hearing on 17 December. He was found to have breached the standards of professional […] […]

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog after a complaint was made over its handling of an alleged Downing Street Christmas party during Covid restrictions last year. Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb wrote to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to raise concerns over the reported event on December 18 2020 and […] […]

Two Met officers who described the bodies of two sisters brutally murdered in a park in North London as “dead birds” will be kicked out of the police for gross misconduct, a hearing has ruled. Pc Jamie Lewis, 33, and former officer Deniz Jaffer, 47, shared crime scene photos of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, […] […]

Pete Wishart and the Good Law Project have joined forces against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), lodging a pre-action protocol on Friday. It comes after the MP for Perth and North Perthshire complained to the MSP Commissioner Cressida Dick over concerns about potential criminality, when an investigation by the Sunday Times and openDemocracy found a […] […]

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded not guilty to a number of child sex offences. Detective Constable Francois Olwage appeared at Winchester Crown Court to enter pleas to four charges, including grooming a 13-year-old girl to meet up with him for sex. Prosecutors say the alleged offences occurred between October 14 and 29 this […] […]