A police officer linked to the Sandra Birchmore case has reached an agreement with the Massachusetts police oversight agency to never again seek certification for police work. This effectively brings to an end his law enforcement career in the state.

Joshua Heal, a former Abington police officer, has been described as a confidant of Birchmore. Authorities say she was killed by a former Stoughton police officer who had sexually exploited her after she joined a police youth program as a teenager.

Birchmore was pregnant when she was found dead in her Canton apartment in 2021 at age 23. Though her death was initially ruled a suicide, federal prosecutors later charged Matthew Farwell , the former Stoughton police officer, with killing her to conceal a sexual relationship they began when

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