FORMER West Yorkshire Police officers are to come under scrutiny for their actions in a “corrupt” investigation which derailed a major murder inquiry.
The YEP revealed in July how detectives took a key murder trial witness to a brothel, paid him cash and allowed him to take cannabis and heroin in their company during what Supreme Court judges said was a “shocking and disgraceful” conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Supergrass and convicted robber Karl Chapman had sex with a policewoman, socialised at officers’ homes and visited pubs while in custody as police sought to secure his continued co-operation.
Chapman received special treatment because he was the main prosecution witness in the case of Paul Maxwell, who in June this year finally admitted murdering 85-year-old Joe Smales in Wakefield in 1996.
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