Shana Grice murder: police officer's hearing was a sham, say parents

Officer who told woman she was wasting police time was given a lesser charge by panel

The parents of a woman who was accused of wasting police time five months before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend have denounced disciplinary proceedings against the police officer involved as a sham after he was found not to have committed gross misconduct.

A panel sitting in Lewes, East Sussex found Trevor Godfrey failed to adequately investigate Shana Grice's allegations of harassment and stalking and failed to treat her as a victim - behaviour that amounted to a breach of police rules. But it said his actions amounted to the lesser disciplinary offence of misconduct for which Godfrey, now retired, would not have been sacked, were he still working.