Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has de­scribed the di­rec­tive to charge a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer with the mur­der of act­ing Cpl Anusha Ever­s­ley as a “sig­nif­i­cant break­through” in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The com­ment came hours af­ter the in­struc­tion to charge the 28-year-old was is­sued by the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard. Charges of rob­bery with vi­o­lence, traf­fick­ing of firearms and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion were al­so ex­pect­ed to be laid against the of­fi­cer. How­ev­er, he was not yet of­fi­cial­ly charged last night af­ter of­fi­cers un­cov­ered fresh ev­i­dence in the case which they need­ed to ver­i­fy.

Re­fer­ring to the en­tire sit­u­a­tion as the “height of be­tray­al” dur­ing a ra­dio talk show yes­ter­day, he al­so is­sued a warn­ing to all po­lice of­fi­cers that no acts of trans­gres­sion would be tol­er­at­ed.