Police officers ‘photographed and manipulated body of suicide victim’

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Two police officers in Northern Ireland allegedly moved a suicide victim's body around a room and took photos and a video, one of which is thought to have exposed his genitalia. The pair have been under investigation for over three years and allegations against them have been described by NI's Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson as "harrowing". The officers were at the scene where the suicide victim's body was discovered in 2017. Speaking to BBC NI Spotlight, the victim's sister said her brother's genitalia had been exposed in one of the photographs the officers are alleged to have shared. The victim's father claimed the police officers asked him to leave the room where his son's body was found. "I done everything they asked me to at the time," the father said. "And all that keeps coming back to me is why did I leave the room," he continued, "because that must have been when they done it, when they took the photographs." He said the allegations make him "physically sick to this day." [caption id="attachment_346679" align="alignnone" width="976"] The victim's sister has lost all trust in the PSNI (Image: PSNI)[/caption] One of the officers has been suspended but is still getting full pay while they are investigated, the BBC reports. It is part of a wider investigation involving 11 separate but related incidents over a number of years in which several arrests have been made. Possible offences include misconduct, harassment and the suspected drug supply. "There are multiple suspects, including police officers and civilians, in Northern Ireland as well as in England," Ombudsman Anderson said. The family of the suicide victim, from Belfast, said the allegations had made their trauma worse. Pádraig Ó Muirigh, the family's lawyer, compared the case to that in which two Met Police officers were jailed for two years after taking and sharing photographs of murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry. https://twitter.com/SoniaPoulton/status/1455486022742155270 The victim's father said he was first told about the allegations 18 months after his son had died. Related links:

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