A grieving mother has blasted police for congratulating themselves on Twitter with a Top Gun GIF for finding her daughter’s dead body.
Nevres Kemal said Kent Police’s Tweet, which boasted about finding a ‘deceased person’s dead body within 90 minutes’ alongside a GIF showing two Top Gun characters high fiving each other was ‘horrendous’ and ‘unacceptable’.
Mrs Kemal’s daughter Azra Kemal was 24 when she died after falling from a motorway bridge in Kent, England, as she fled her burning car in July 2020.
A different tweet celebrates the police drone work used in the investigation with the hashtag ‘crackingbitofkit’.
She told Sky News: ‘That tweet was just horrendous. I could not believe that professional police officers would high-five themselves and pat themselves on the back, on the back of my daughter’s demise.
Nevres Kemal (left), whose daughter Azra Kamal (right) died after falling from a motorway bridge in Kent, England described Kent Police’s tweet as ‘horrendous’ and ‘unacceptable’
The Tweet said the force was able to ‘identify a deceased person within about 90 mins of being at scene’ alongside a Top Gun GIF
‘It’s more than insensitive. It’s unacceptable. What is the mindset of people investigating crimes on our behalf?’
A different Tweet said within hours police were ‘satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances’, even though Ms Kemal says she was told they were still investigating at the time.
The initial suspect, the man Azra was travelling with, said that in the darkness, Azra had not seen the drop between the carriageways, as she climbed over the central reservation barrier.
He was released with no further action and the investigation closed before the end of its first day.
But Mrs Kemal said she thought the investigation was wrapped up too quickly and a forensic post-mortem should have been carried out.
She said of the police: ‘Do the job you are supposed to do. Look at the information, look at the leads, look at the timelines, look at the interviews, go back to the witnesses, because no one saw Azra die.
Mrs Kemal’s daughter Azra Kemal was 24 when she died after falling from a motorway bridge in Kent, England, as she fled her burning car in July 2020
‘There should be a uniform process. If there is a death and there’s no witnesses to a death, everybody should have that right to a forensic autopsy.’
A Kent Police spokesman told Sky News: ‘Officers determined there were no suspicious circumstances, and a man who had initially been arrested in connection with the incident was released without charge.
‘A police investigation into the circumstances then continued for several months to assist an inquest by the coroner. The subsequent inquest into the death returned a verdict of misadventure.
‘A complaint about the quality of the investigation was made to Kent Police in November 2020. This complaint was sent to an independent force to review, which concluded the service provided by Kent Police had been acceptable.
‘In February 2022, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) received a request to carry out a further investigation into the complaint.
‘In response, the IOPC concluded that the investigation into the complaint had been ‘reasonable and proportionate’ and that an acceptable service had been provided in respect of the criminal investigation into the woman’s death. A request to review the complaint was not upheld.’
Nevres Kemal’s daughter Azra Kemal (pictured) was 24 when she died after falling from a motorway bridge in the dark as she fled her burning car and was then a victim of Fuller
It comes after Mrs Kemal said she has had ‘months of distress’ waiting for an inquiry into necrophiliac David Fuller crimes – after it emerged her daughter was one of at least 102 women and girls sexually assaulted after their deaths.
Fuller beat and strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He was handed a whole life sentence for the murders, with a concurrent 12-year term for his other crimes, in December 2021 after being arrested the year before.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid promised a full, independent inquiry into what happened, but Ms Kemal says it is not happening fast enough.
She said: ‘The Health Secretary has made a pledge to the families and we will hold him to that pledge.
‘The families are already distressed, but the proposed chair of the inquiry has yet to get in touch with any of those most affected by this scandal. They are Fuller’s victims too.
‘In spite of the assurances given, we haven’t even got to first base yet after two further months of distress, waiting, and wondering. It is not good enough.’
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