Two Metropolitan police officers have pleaded guilty after taking photographs at the scene where two women lay murdered, before the images were shared on a WhatsApp group.

PC Deniz Jaffer, 48, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, admitted misconduct in public office at the Old Bailey, over the photos taken in a park where sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death.

The two officers were guarding the scene in June 2020 at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, shortly after the bodies of the two women had been found.

Jaffer, of Hornchurch, east London, and Lewis, from Colchester, Essex, have both been suspended from duty.

Henry, a senior social worker and Smallman, a photographer, had been celebrating the elder sister’s birthday in the park. After the celebration ended, they stayed behind and were attacked.

They were reported missing the next day and a search by family and friends led to the partner of one of the sisters finding their bodies.

Smallman and Henry were the daughters of a pioneering cleric, Mina Smallman, the Church of England’s first female archdeacon from a black and minority ethnic background.

Danyal Hussein, who was 18 at the time, from Blackheath in south London, has been convicted of the murder of both sisters and jailed for life.