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Sunday, April 27, 2014

A gangster left to rot in a sealed barrel... and a stench of corruption that goes to the top

A gangster left to rot in a sealed barrel... and a stench of corruption that goes to the top

Left, the police officers being questioned. Right the drug dealer who's remains were put in a sealed barrel
The Crown Prosecution Service is about to receive files on four high-ranking police officers - two of them serving chief constables - to decide if they should be charged in the wake of an alleged corruption scandal. They are from top left: Chief Constable Adrian Lee, of Northamptonshire, a former head of police ethics; Chief Constable Suzette Davenport of Gloucestershire, a former head of witness protection; Deputy Chief Constable Jane Sawyers, of Staffordshire; and Assistant Chief Marcus Beale, of West Midlands. The CPS will have to decide if the four will face criminal charges over allegaitons of paying a murder inquiry witness. The witness was crucial in a trial brought in the wake of the death of cocaine smuggler Floyd Dodson, whose body was found in a sealed barrel in a country lane in Staffordshire.

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