‘Lying police officer derailed investigations’

A Met Police officer failed to properly investigate seven cases including an assault carried out by a registered sex offender, a court heard. PC Anil Celebi, 28, allegedly falsified records so that he did not have to do paperwork and told ‘repeated lies’ to close the cases prematurely. PC Celebi was working out of Wembley Police when he failed to properly investigate seven cases. He denies seven counts of misconduct between September 2019 and April 2020 Allan Compton, KC, prosecuting…