Seventh police officer faces probe over Shropshire murderer Jamie Reynolds
A seventh West Mercia police officer has been served with a misconduct notice in an investigation into how police dealt with Jamie Reynolds when he tried to strangle a teenage girl in 2008 - five years before he murdered Telford 17-year-old Georgia Williams
The West Mercia Police officer is the latest to have been summoned to interview by detectives from Devon and Cornwall Police under Operation Columbia.
It is an independent investigation into the force's dealings with Reynolds after the attack five years before he murdered 17-year-old Georgia Williams.
Reynolds was cautioned by police in 2008 when, aged 17, he lured a girl back to his house in Avondale Road, Wellington, Telford. He used the pretence of a photo-shoot and tried to strangle her in an attack that foreshadowed Georgia's murder.
Now aged 24, Reynolds is in HMP Wakefield serving a full life sentence after losing his appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in London last month.
The Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Mr Justice Wyn Williams and Mr Justice Sweeney ruled there was "no basis on which it can properly be argued that a whole-life order was not required".
Six West Mercia Police officers were issued with misconduct notices in relation to professional standards in September.
The seventh officer received a misconduct notice in relation to the ongoing investigation.
Dan Mountain, at Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "A seventh serving West Mercia police officer has been served with a misconduct notice on Friday in relation to the ongoing investigation. All of the complainants are being regularly informed of the progress of the investigation."
