Row as Robert Hughes attacker opens gym with police

Robert Hughes and his mother are now awaiting the retrial

The Metropolitan Police has been told to reinvestigate how a convicted man opened a gym with two officers.

The mother of assault victim Robert Hughes, an ex-footballer, went to the Independent Police Complaints Commission after one of his attackers started the gym in Crawley, Sussex.

Daniel Bell, from Horley, was one of four Surrey men convicted over the attack in Crete.

All four appealed and are to face a retrial in Greece.

Former Oxford United player Mr Hughes was left in a coma and suffered brain damage after the attack outside a nightclub in Malia in 2008.

His mother Maggie Hughes had complained to the Metropolitan Police about PC Glen Oliver and Det Con Leanne Henery's business association with Bell.

She said: "I couldn't understand that there has been no misconduct at all by going into business with somebody that has committed a crime like this person has, and the fact that this court case hasn't even been finalised."

Appeal upheld

But the Metropolitan Police found no evidence either officer deliberately withheld information and no evidence of misconduct.

Both officers did receive "management action" after failing to notify the force of their association.

After Mrs Hughes went to the police watchdog, the IPCC upheld her appeal because it said the officers were not asked sufficiently probing questions about their business interests.

It said the Metropolitan Police should reinvestigate her complaint.

PC Oliver told the BBC it would be unprofessional for him or his business partner to comment to the BBC.

Robert Hughes was left brain-damaged