A NEWBURY police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct for botching an historic child sex abuse case. A Thames Valley Police hearing found PC Daniel Burford had been either idle or incompetent and that his “egregious failure” had retraumatised the complainant. Misconduct panel members ruled the officer had “decided from the very start of this ‘investigation’ that it was not going to result in any positive action and therefore would only receive the bare minimum of effort”. They added: “Had a prosecution ensued, the case would have been jeopardised by his cavalier attitude to handli…
