Met officer sacked for accessing Sarah Everard files

A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed for accessing files relating to Sarah Everard’s murder without proper policing purpose.

PC Myles McHugh, another serving officer, and a former officer committed gross misconduct by viewing the confidential files as they did not have a proper policing purpose to do so, a tribunal has found.

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