IPPC-ALT   04/08

A Dorset police officer has been sacked after being involved in an innappropriate relationship with a mother who'd suffered domestic abuse - and went on to be murdered.

That's from an investigation by the Independent police complaints commission.

Katazyna Ryba was murdered by Piotr Zasada in 2009 who was sentenced to life in prison last year.
 
PC Richard Allan was dismissed in June after he carried out unauthorised searches on the police computer. He'd deleted text messages he'd exchanged with Katazyna once he discovered she had been murdered.

The investigation decided the failings of how PC Allen and others handled the domestic abuse allegations did not impact on the outcome of Ms Ryba's death.