Met officer sacked for accessing confidential Sarah Everard case files

A serving Metropolitan Police serviceman has been kicked retired of the unit aft accessing confidential and delicate files astir the lawsuit of Sarah Everard.

PC Myles McHugh, on with erstwhile trainee detective constable Hannah Rebbeck and Sergeant Mark Harper, looked astatine the lawsuit without having crushed to bash so.

They were recovered to person committed gross misconduct aft a three-week disciplinary tribunal successful southbound eastbound London.

Ms Everard, a 33-year-old selling executive, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by then-serving Met serviceman Wayne Couzens implicit the people of March 3 and 4 2021.

The sheet said McHugh’s behaviour was astatine the ‘higher extremity of harm’. He was dismissed without announcement for repeatedly accessing the constabulary strategy connected matters which had thing to bash with his duties.

He looked astatine idiosyncratic information that was ‘very sensitive’ and ‘he attempted to sermon what helium had seen with his colleagues’, according to sheet chairwoman Sharmistha Michaels.

She said helium acted retired of a ‘curiosity’ astir the probe arsenic helium accessed information ‘extensively and accumulatively’ but stopped looking for the accusation aft Couzens was arrested.

After the hearing, the Met said the sheet heard that PC McHugh accessed the accusation portion disconnected work and for a important play of time.

Rebbeck, who has already near the Met, was recovered to person repeatedly accessed delicate information without immoderate nexus to her duties.

The sheet said she would person been dismissed without announcement if she was inactive connected the force.

The sheet ruled the breaches of nonrecreational standards were truthful superior successful the cases of McHugh and Rebbeck that the lone due result was dismissal.

Sergeant Harper was handed a last written warning, to past for 3 years.

Couzens is serving a full beingness condemnation for Ms Everard’s murder.

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