THE mother of two murdered sisters said yesterday that an apology from the Metropolitan Police “felt like a slap in the face” after two officers were jailed for sharing photos of their bodies.

Mina Smallman told Desert Island Discs that she was “celebrating” when the constables were jailed, adding that “hidden pockets of filth” had been “allowed to blossom” in the force.

Ms Smallman’s daughters, Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed to death while celebrating a birthday in a park in Wembley, north-west London, in June 2020.

Danyal Hussein was jailed for a minimum of 35 years for murdering them as part of a Satanic blood pact.

Former Met constables Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were jailed for two years and nine months for sharing photographs of the sisters on WhatsApp.

They described them as “dead birds” in the messaging groups.

Former Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick issued a public apology in 2021 on behalf of the force to the family.

Asked what her response to that apology was, Ms Smallman told the BBC Radio 4 programme: “It felt like a slap in the face, really. 

“You say sorry when you bump into someone at the supermarket.”

Ms Smallman, a former teacher and priest, said a police call handler never got back to her after she reported her daughters as missing.

She added that she thought a search was not initially launched by police because of their ethnicity.

Ms Smallman, 68, said: “Sometimes racism doesn’t have language. It’s not verbalised. It’s what you fail to do and what you communicate within the structures.”

On being told that police had shared pictures of her daughters, Ms Smallman said she “completely lost it.”

The retired Anglican priest said she had been able to forgive the killer of her daughters but not the police officers.