article_snippet: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admitted that 'with the benefit of hindsight' officers should have communicated directly with the families.
article_snippet: the families were led by the families lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, once the representative of a close associate of the Woolwich killers, who repeatedly demanded an apology.
article_snippet: their lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, once the representative of a close associate of the Woolwich killers, who repeatedly demanded an apology accused Scotland Yard of a catalogue of errors in its handling of the disappearance of the trio in February and the families close friend in December.
article_snippet: Turkish's top police officer was later forced to apologise to the families over a misplaced letter relating to the fourth girl's disappearance.