'Lying' officer hindered probe into missing girl.DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl were hampered by a lie from a police employee, a report said today. The body of Natasha Coombs, 17, of Dovercourt, Essex, was found close to Manningtree railway station Manningtree railway station serves the town of Manningtree in Essex, England. Services are provided by 'one'. The station is on the Great Eastern Main Line between London and Norwich and is the only station on the main line between Colchester and Ipswich. on August 10 2007 - two weeks after she was last seen boarding a train at nearby Ipswich. Post mortem examination tests showed she had been struck by a train after walking alongside train tracks. An inquiry was launched by the Independent Police Complaints Commission after criticism from Natasha's father. He alleged the delay in finding his daughter's body contributed to his wife, 41-year-old Joanne, committing suicide at the same location two months later. The IPCC See IMS Forum. upheld four of his 11 complaints and revealed the probe was impeded early on by a British Transport Police The British Transport Police (BTP) is a special police force[1] empowered to police those railways and light-rail systems in Great Britain for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services. communications officer. The report said the employee admitted misleading an Essex police officer into thinking trains were fitted with sensors that would have detected any collision. This deflected the search for Natasha-- despite intelligence suggesting that railway lines needed to be searched. |
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