THE mother of a man jailed for killing his Bolton model girlfriend faces a fresh probe following claims she made in a newspaper.

Melda Wilks, the mother of Ricardo Morrison, is being investigated amid suggestions she has changed her version of events on the day Amy Barnes was killed.

The 50-year-old officer, who has 28 years experience with the West Midlands Police, was acquitted of assisting an offender following a trial in July.

She spoke in public for the first time about the trial last week — but has sparked allegations that the comments she made are inconsistent with the evidence she gave at court. Morrison is serving a life sentence after a jury found him guilty of stabbing 19-year-old Amy to death at the home they shared in Moss Street, Farnworth.

During the trial, it was claimed PC Wilks washed Morrison’s clothes when he returned to her home in Birmingham, which she denied.

She told the court Morrison normally washed his clothes when he came home, and that he put them in the washing machine and turned it on when he arrived at her Birmingham house on the day Amy was killed.

But she is reported as saying in the Birmingham Mail that when he got home, her “police training kicked in”, and she checked her son’s clothes for blood and his body for scratches, but there was nothing.

The newspaper then quotes her as saying she always washes Morrison’s clothes when he comes home and that she didn’t think to call the police because she didn’t think he had done anything wrong.

Wilks is currently suspended pending an outcome of a misconduct investigation by the West Midlands Police.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: “We have been made aware of a newspaper interview that appears to contradict some of the evidence Melda Wilks gave during her trial earlier this year.

“Officers will now be working with the Crown Prosecution Service to see if any further action is required.”