Eighth police worker handed misconduct notice over handling of Jamie Reynolds
An eighth police staff member has received a misconduct notice in an investigation into how West Mercia Police dealt with Jamie Reynolds after an attack five years before he murdered Telford 17-year-old Georgia Williams.
They become the latest member of the force to be summoned to interview by detectives from Devon and Cornwall Police under Operation Columbia.
It is an independent investigation into the force's dealings with Reynolds after he tried to strangle a teenage girl in 2008.
The first seven notices were sent out to serving police officers and the latest went to a member of staff. Reynolds was cautioned by police when, aged 17, he lured a girl back to his house in Avondale Road, Wellington, Telford.
He used the pretence of a photo-shoot and tried to strangle her in an attack that foreshadowed Georgia's murder.
Now aged 24, Reynolds is in HMP Wakefield serving a full life sentence after losing his appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in London last month.
Six West Mercia Police officers were issued with misconduct notices in relation to professional standards in September and a seventh in November.
The seventh officer received a misconduct notice in relation to the ongoing investigation.
