Metropolitan Police has apologised to the mother of two sisters stabbed to death by a teenage Satanist in a London park for its 'unacceptable investigation'.
Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 21, were stabbed more than 30 times in a horrific and unprovoked attack while they were out celebrating Ms Henry's birthday at Wembley's Fryent Country Park in the early hours of June 6 last year.
Their bodies were found intertwined in undergrowth by Ms Smallman's boyfriend two days after they had initially been reported missing to police.
An Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation found no evidence of discrimination into the Met's missing persons enquiry.
Nicole Smallman (left) and Bibaa Henry (right) were last seen dancing to music with fairy lights around 1am on June 6 after celebrating Bibaa's birthday with friends in Fryent Country Park
Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman taken from Bibaa's phone in Fryent Country Park that night
Mina Smallman, the mother of Nicole Smallman, speaking outside the Old Bailey in London after Danyal Hussein was found guilty of murder
The force, though, has issued a formal apology to Mina Smallman for providing an 'unacceptable service', Channel 4 News reports.
The devastated mother told the programme that, despite the findings of the police watchdog, there were racist elements in the missing persons investigation.
She said: 'No one was taking it seriously. There was no search put in place by police. Our phone calls were being disregarded.
'There was no action at all… Biba wasn't even on as a missing person on the Sunday after we'd made calls on the Saturday. And you know, it's shameful. It's shocking that.
'Right from the very beginning, they knew they were looking for two girls, two women of colour. I'm trying to understand.
'Why they didn't follow procedure. What could the explanation be?'
Ms Smallman's boyfriend Adam Stone had become worried when he had not heard from her and he and their
