She said the ordeal has ‘taken our grief to another place.'
‘It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.’
The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the pictures were allegedly ‘shared with a small number of others’, adding that the Met was ‘handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images’. She claimed the police did not immediately respond to initial reports that the sisters were missing, adding that she co-ordinated a search operation on the weekend they died.Mina Smallman said officers ‘didn’t care’ about her daughter because they knew she was a ‘black woman who lives on a council estate’
The IOPC is investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing and whether racism was a factor in the two suspended officer’s alleged actions.
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