This Is More Than Insensitive

A grieving mother has criticised 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.

Nevres 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.

It comes after Nevres Kemal said she’d had months of distress waiting for an inquiry into necrophiliac David Fuller’s crimes after it emerged her daughter was one of at least 102 women and girls sexually assaulted by him after their deaths.

A different tweet celebrates the police drone work used in the investigation with the hashtag ‘crackingbitofkit’.

She told Sky News that the tweet was just horrendous and that she couldn’t believe that professional police officers would high-five themselves and pat themselves on the back of her daughter’s demise.

She said that it was more than insensitive, it was unacceptable and what was this mindset of people investigating crimes on our behalf?

A different Tweet said within hours police were satisfied there were no suspicious circumstances, even though Mrs Kemal said 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 hadn’t 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 that they should do the job that they’re supposed to do. Look at the information, look at the leads, look at the timelines, look at the interviews, and go back to the witnesses, because no one saw Azra die.

She said there should be a uniform process. If there’s death and there’s no witness to death, everybody should have that right to a forensic autopsy.

A Kent Police spokesman told a newspaper outlet that Kent Police carried out a full and thorough investigation following the death of a woman who fell from a road bridge of the A21, on 16 July 2020.

This is despicable, and did anyone from the police even think for a moment that perhaps they shouldn’t be publicising such things on Twitter?

All police forces should be barred from tweeting when it comes to things that they have been investigating. What they do off duty in their own personal time is up to them, they can put whatever rubbish they want about their own personal life, but not another person, and they have to be seen to police themselves to an acceptable standard. There should be more policing and less tweeting.

This was out of order, cruel and unprofessional and there was simply no justification for this tweet.

No one in the police force should be tweeting. They have a job to do and that isn’t tweeting. They claim they’re overworked and short-staffed, but they have time to tweet!

Perhaps if they spent as much time dealing with crime as they do on social media the UK would be crime free. And it appears that our police in the United Kingdom are no longer fit for purpose and they clearly aren’t policing by consent anymore.

And why wasn’t a post-mortem done? There was only one witness, and this tragedy wasn’t investigated well enough, probably because they were too busy on Twitter, tweeting messages that they shouldn’t have been.