A senior coroner who left case documents into the case of murdered Hanwell teenager Alice Gross on a train, has been found guilty of misconduct.

Senior Coroner Chinyere Inyama was issued with 'formal advice' after a conduct investigation by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.

The disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross on August 28, 2014, saw a huge police search operation and the Hanwell community pulling together to help find her, until her body was found in the River Brent just over a month later.

The inquest into her death was transferred to a different coroner after Inyama lost the sensitive documents just one month after Alice's body was found.

The Senior Coroner had requested the move after he came under fierce criticism for losing the files, believed to have contained evidence against the prime suspect, Arnis Zalkalns.

Grieving family 'furious'

The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office launched an investigation after the blunder came to light.

Police tried to trace the paperwork but decided it had probably been “destroyed as waste”.

Alice's grieving family only found out about the blunder when details were revealed in the media in July this year.

At the time they were said to be furious that they had not been told immediately.

A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, said: “Senior Coroner Chinyere Inyama, Senior Coroner for West London has been subject to a conduct investigation after temporarily misplacing a police report in relation to a case before him.

“The Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor found that Coroner Inyama’s failure to report the loss to the Chief Coroner at the time it occurred amounts to misconduct and have issued him with formal advice regarding the future handling of sensitive information.”

Alice’s inquest will now take place at Westminster Coroner’s Court.