The Massachusetts POST Fee has decertified William Farwell, a former Stoughton Police officer and brother of Matthew Farwell, who the feds have charged with killing Sandra Birchmore.
“The Respondent William Farwell has entered into a Voluntary Decertification Agreement under which he has agreed to the permanent revocation of his certification (also known as decertification) as a law enforcement officer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” a discover by the fee posted Tuesday states.
The settlement states that William Farwell agrees that ought to his case transfer to an adjudicatory listening to, the proof towards him is robust. It waives his proper to enchantment.
The fee’s dialogue previous the decertification isn’t identified, because the commissioners who attended Tuesday morning’s digital assembly voted unanimously to enter an government session and never return to the general public assembly.
The fundamentals of the criticism towards William Farwell are much like these towards his brother, minus impregnating and murdering Birchmore in her Canton condo. He’s accused of getting an inappropriate relationship with Birchmore who he first met when as a baby she entered the Stoughton Police Division’s Explorers Program to find out about being a police officer.
William Farwell labored on the Stoughton PD from March 21, 2017, till his resignation on Aug. 1, 2022, in line with the decertification settlement.
An inside PD investigation opened on Nov. 22, 2022, concluded that William Farwell had lied concerning the extent of his relationship with Birchmore — who’s recognized all through the doc solely below her initials, S.B.
William Farwell allegedly admitted that he had a sexual relationship with Birchmore for about two years. The investigation additional claims that he exchanged sexually specific texts with Birchmore whereas on responsibility. All of this allegedly befell whereas Birchmore was an grownup. He additionally allegedly made round 26 unauthorized searches on the Felony Justice Data Companies databases on each himself and Birchmore.
Matthew Farwell
William Farwell’s brother Matthew Farwell was charged late final month with killing Sandra Birchmore, which prosecutors say he did as a technique to cowl up his crimes of raping her when she was underage starting in 2015 and persevering with their sexual encounters even whereas he was on responsibility. The inciting motion, in line with prosecutors, is when Birchmore revealed to the married father that she was pregnant with their little one.
A month after that disclosure, prosecutors allege, Matthew Farwell on Feb. 1, 2021, went to Birchmore’s Canton condo, strangled the 23-year-old to loss of life and staged the scene to appear to be a suicide.
Stoughton PD Chief Donna McNamara mentioned that the division put Matthew Farwell below administrative depart and launched an inside investigation later that very same month when it first heard of the allegations. He submitted his resignation that April and was decertified by the POST Fee earlier this yr.
Workers Photograph By Matt Stone/Boston Herald
Stoughton Police Division headquarter (Workers Photograph By Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
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