Met officer sacked and two others also guilty of accessing Sarah Everard investigation files

PC Myles McHugh, erstwhile Detective Constable Hannah Rebbeck and Sergeant Mark Harper had nary due policing intent for looking up the case.

McHugh was dismissed by a gross misconduct sheet connected Friday.

Rebbeck would person been sacked had she inactive been serving and Harper was handed a last written informing to past for 3 years.

PC McHugh accessed the accusation portion disconnected work and for a important play of time, portion Rebbeck was recovered to person repeatedly accessed delicate information without immoderate nexus to her duties.

Sgt Harper was handed a last written warning,.

Marketing enforcement Ms Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Met firearms serviceman Wayne Couzens successful March 2021.

Inspector Akinwale Ajose-Adeogun, DC Tyrone Ward and DS Robert Butters were cleared arsenic they did person a morganatic crushed for accessing the applicable information.

Another serving serviceman volition look abstracted gross misconduct proceedings connected a day to beryllium acceptable and a civilian was antecedently fired.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said: “Today arsenic always, our thoughts stay with Sarah Everard’s household and friends.

“We person apologised to them for the added distress this lawsuit has caused and I recognise the wider questions and concerns this raises.

“Our officers and unit are regularly reminded that constabulary systems and circumstantial files indispensable lone beryllium accessed wherever determination is simply a morganatic policing intent to bash so.

“This includes reminder screens and informing pages erstwhile logging connected to our bundle systems, arsenic good arsenic mandatory grooming connected accusation absorption which indispensable beryllium completed by everyone wrong the organisation.

“It is wide the sheet has cautiously considered the circumstances of each idiosyncratic lawsuit earlier coming to their decision that 3 officers had nary acceptable crushed for looking astatine this information.”