TWO police officers were interviewed under caution yesterday and placed on restricted duty, pending investigation into claims that they failed to properly respond to a fatal stabbing.

Andrew Else was stabbed more than 200 times in Selsdon Park Road, south-east London, in April last year.

Paranoid schizophrenia sufferer Ephraim Norman was detained indefinitely at the maximum security Broadmoor psychiatric hospital for manslaughter.

But an allegation of improper case handling came to light during an ongoing misconduct investigation, according to a Metropolitan police spokesman.

One of the officers, both sergeants, had been moved from a policing team over allegations of “inappropriate behaviour” reported in January last year, police said.

Those allegations were reported to the Met’s directorate of professional standards and referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which advised a local investigation.