A Metropolitan Police officer investigated for sharing a meme about a woman being lured into woods and killed will keep his job.
The constable allegedly posted the sick graphic on WhatsApp while off-duty in March and before he was deployed to guard a cordon in Kent in the search for Sarah Everard.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct described the image as ‘highly offensive’.
He was one of five officers from four forces who face misconduct proceedings over messages shared in relation to Sarah’s case.
If he’s found guilty of breaching professional standards the Met officer, who was on probation at the time, will face disciplinary action such as a written warning.
But he won’t be sacked because he faces no gross misconduct charge, which carries the more severe penalty.
Two other Met officers who received the ‘murder meme’ have been put under investigation.
Another constable still on probation had a case to answer for ‘allegedly sharing the graphic and failing to challenge it’ and will also be subject to a misconduct meeting.
The police watchdog found there was no case to answer for a third Met officer who ‘forwarded to two people seeking their advice on how to deal with the situation’.
They will ‘undergo reflective practice’ training because they ‘thought the graphic was inappropriate’ but failed to report it directly to bosses.
Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens is serving a whole-life sentence after kidnapping, raping and murdering 33-year-old Ms Everard earlier this year.
The killing sparked a national conversation about both male violence against women and police culture.
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