Nottingham Post published Policeman 'played down solicitor affair', misconduct hearing told

A police officer who supported the family of a murder victim "deliberately downplayed" an affair with a solicitor representing one of the accused, a misconduct panel has heard. Detective Constable Peter Surgay was a family liaison officer in the investigation into the murder of Clifford Collinge, who died after suffering 46 injuries in an attack at his home in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, in October 2011. The panel had previously heard the officer was in a sexual and...