The head of one of Britain’s biggest police forces is facing calls to stand down amid a criminal probe in relation to his role in an investigation into a suspected sex offender.

Human remains of some of serial killer Harold Shipman’s victims were kept for more than a decade by police before they were secretly destroyed without the families’ permission, it has emerged.

THE family of one of three women whose lives could have been saved if police had investigated serial killer Harold Shipman properly yesterday labelled the force as “appallingly incompetent.”