Mina Smallman says she has forgiven murderer but not officers who shared images of bodies in London park

Mina Smallman, the mother of two women murdered in a London park, has forgiven their killer but not the two Metropolitan police officers who took and shared photos of their bodies, she said.

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were reported missing on 6 June 2020, the day before friends discovered their bodies in a park in Wembley, north London, after organising their own search party.

Police officers Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were ordered to guard the scene. While there they took photos, some showing the bodies, and shared them in two WhatsApp groups, calling the victims “dead birds”. They were each jailed for two years and nine months in 2021.

Smallman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she had forgiven her daughter’s killer, Danyal Hussein, but not Jaffer and Lewis.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    forgiveness is often for yourself, not the third party.

    It doesn’t change anything for the killer to be forgiven in your mind, but it changes something in your mind to forgive.