A DETECTIVE has pleaded not guilty to forging a witness statement during an investigation into the murder of Lucy Anne Rushton.

Detective Constable Robert Ferrow is accused of completing and signing the statement as part of the murder probe in June 2019. 

The police officer denied one count of forgery at Winchester Crown Court today, January 20. 

Judge Angela Morris adjourned the case for trial on August 9 and released Ferrow on unconditional bail.

As previously reported, DC Ferrow has been charged with making a false instrument with intent for it to be accepted as genuine, under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. 

DC Ferrow was one of the officers investigating the murder of Lucy-Anne Rushton, who was killed by her husband Shaun Dyson on June 23, 2019 at her home in Suffolk Road, Andover.

The 30-year-old sustained 37 rib fractures, a broken sternum, internal blood loss and torn bowel ligaments during the attack by Dyson, and was described as suffering a “miserable, wretched and drawn out death”.

Dyson, 28, was jailed for life and will serve a minimum of 17 years at Winchester Crown Court for the murder of his estranged wife.