A serving Metropolitan police officer has been sacked from the force after asking for and receiving a photograph of a dead man. PC Bonnie Murphy, who asked colleague Jamie Lewis to send her a photo of a decomposed body to show her family, was dismissed without notice. Lewis would have been dismissed had he not already been sacked and jailed for two years and nine months in December 2021 for taking pictures of two murder victims – Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry. The two women had been celebrating Henry’s birthday in a park in Wembley, north-west London, in June 2020 when they were stabbed to death by Danyal Hussein. Lewis was one of the officers in charge of guarding the bodies but took selfies with them and shared the pictures over WhatsApp. An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which ran from July 2020 to October 2021, found that Lewis had received and passed on to Murphy the photo of a decomposed body in Newham, east London, at her request. He also helped her to cheat on a police driving test. The day after Lewis was arrested over the Wembley incident, Murphy told her supervisor that Lewis had sent her WhatsApp messages asking if she wanted the answers to the police basic driver written exam. When she agreed, Lewis sent her previous police driving exam material and the answer sheet to the exam he had taken the previous month. She also used Google during the exam. A disciplinary panel ruled that they had both breached the standards of police professional behaviour and had acted with gross misconduct. IOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: “The period after a person’s death is already difficult enough for their loved ones, so to learn that an image has been taken and shared inappropriately by police officers only compounds their grief, undermines their confidence in the Metropolitan police service and the profession as a whole. “We welcome the panel’s decision and hope today’s outcome demonstrates that this behaviour is not treated lightly and can result in serious consequences for the officers involved.” Murphy will be placed on the College of Policing’s barred list. Lewis had already been placed on the barred list after an accelerated hearing organised by the Met after he was convicted and jailed. The officer who took the photo of the dead man had a disciplinary meeting for misconduct in August 2022 and was ordered to take the reflective practice review process to learn and reflect on their actions.