"The Independent Office for Police Conduct said ten Met officers were slapped with disciplinary notices as part of an ongoing investigation into contact the force had with Ms Hunt and Ms Holm. They include a police constable, working in the control centre, who was served with a misconduct notice last month relating to a call which mentioned Cooper and was marked as a hoax."
"IOPC director Amanda Rowe said the investigation into police actions following Ms Holm's report of an assault by Cooper in April 2023 had led to a detective sergeant and a detective constable being informed they were being investigated for potential gross misconduct. A detective inspector and two police constables were being investigated for potential misconduct relating to those actions."
"During Cooper's trial, Woolwich Crown Court heard Ms Hunte, who was found stabbed to death on her sofa in south east London on Valentine's Day in 2022, made a number of domestic callouts to police in 2020 and 2021 and told them he was obsessed with her."
Carl Cooper, 66, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024 for murdering Naomi Hunte, 41, and Fiona Holm, 48. Both women had been in relationships with Cooper and reported his violence to police. The Independent Office for Police Conduct investigated ten Met officers for misconduct related to their handling of complaints from both victims. A police constable faced disciplinary action for marking a June 2023 anonymous call—which warned that Cooper had murdered someone—as a hoax. This call came days before Holm was reported missing and believed killed. Investigators found that officers failed to properly respond to Holm's April 2023 assault report and Hunte's 2021 complaints about Cooper's obsessive behavior.
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