Fiona Hamilton
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Chief Reporter, The Times. [email protected]
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BREAKING Wayne Couzens sentenced to a rare, whole life order at the Old Bailey. He will never be released for the murder of Sarah Everard. He is the first police officer to receive this sentence.
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BREAKING. David Carrick, a Metropolitan police officer has admitted at least 80 sex attacks, including 47 rapes, against a dozen women. It means that one of the country's worst sex offenders has been working at the force for 20 years.
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The Met apologises again. This time its really disturbing behaviour of officers at Charing Cross station where apparently messages about raping colleagues, killing black children + domestic violence were "jokes and banter". One cop known as the "mcrapey raperson". THREAD.
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In 24 hours I've reported on PC David Carrick's brutal sex offending + suspected gun killing of Epsom headmistress and 7yo daughter by her husband. I read in horror about a mother + 2yo lured to Scotland to be murdered. We have a male violence problem that is utterly sickening.
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PC Wayne Couzens was seen handcuffing Sarah Everard on a road in Clapham - she was compliant because he used the guise of covid restrictions to “arrest” her. It was seen by witnesses who assumed Everard had done something wrong. They were in fact witnessing her kidnap by a cop.
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I'm at Westminster Mags Court where three Metropolitan police officers are accused of sending grossly offensive messages in which they joked about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims and much more. This will be a thread.
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Met Police apologises to black schoolgirl, 15, who was stripsearched while menstruating after teachers smelt cannabis. In breach of guidelines, officers did not get appropriate adult to oversee + mother wasn't told. Review found that search was wrong + racism "likely a factor".
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Met officers who were on the WhatsApp group with Wayne Couzens are giving evidence in their defence, about how their jokes about raping colleagues, assaulting the public and making racist comments were not grossly offensive. This will be another thread.
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BREAKING - PCC of Durham has asked the chief constable to conduct a full inquiry into Dominic Cummings visit. Says there is a "plethora of additional information" in the public domain which deserves investigation.
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Having covered multiple fatal and attempted terror attacks involving young men radicalised online, and with counter-terror police having warned of this issue for well over a decade, I'm pretty astounded that the PM has described Southport as "a new threat".
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David Carrick's nickname at the Metropolitan Police was "bastard Dave". Top brass confirmed the nickname but insisted it was not because of sex behaviour + that colleagues were unaware he was a predator. It was because, they say, he was known to be "mean and cruel".
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Interesting - Met confirms that some people got two to five fines but they were NOT cumulative. So if they paid on time each fine was £50 max - Helen Ball says it "would not have been fair" to be cumulative [remember some members of the public got huge cumulative fines].
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Just extraordinary. A Met probationary constable involved in the Sarah Everard search has been referred to the police watchdog over an "inappropriate graphic" shared with colleagues on social media.
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Warning - this is v offensive. But it’s very important. These officers were on a WhatsApp group with Wayne Couzens before he abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard.
I'm at Westminster Mags Court where three Metropolitan police officers are accused of sending grossly offensive messages in which they joked about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims and much more. This will be a thread.
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Met police linked Couzens to abduction and officers went to his home at 5.45pm on March 9. They did not immediately enter as they wanted to be cautious. Couzens deleted his phone history at 7.11pm, and Met entered house at 7.45pm.
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This is offensive, but the public should know. Here's what a male cop wrote to a female officer at Charing Cross: “I would happily rape you”, “if I was single I would actually hate fuck you” “if I was single I would happily chloroform you”.
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Major development in the Sarah Everard abduction case. The alleged unrelated indecent exposure by serving police officer Wayne Couzens was reported to Scotland Yard on Feb 28, four days before she vanished. Police watchdog investigating whether officers responded "appropriately".
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David Carrick, a Met police officer who served in the same unit as Wayne Couzens, has been charged with nine more offences including six rapes. Carrick now faces a total 53 charges against 13 women across nearly two decades. A significant charge list put out today.
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This is the police force of Wayne Couzens.This is how an officer joked about getting a woman into bed:."Getting a woman in to bed is like spreading butter. It can be done with a bit of effort using a credit card, but it's quicker and easier just to use a knife.”.
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Here's a WhatsApp conversation between 2 officers:.1 - “I fucking need to take my bird out, won’t see her until next Saturday. Then I have to work. Promised to take her out the Friday after. Making it up to her.from when I backhanded her”.2 - “Grab her by the pussy”.
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1 - "You ever slapped your missus? It makes them love you more. Seriously since I did that she won’t leave.me alone. Now I know why these daft c**ts are getting murdered by their spas**c boyfriends. Knock a bird about and she will love you. Human nature".2 - "Lmao".
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Here's how police referred to the public: .“Just walked past the big mosque all the fanatics turn up at to radicalise the young.muslims. ”.• “Some uniform or plain clothes work on Somalian rats… I battered one the other.day…weighed less than [police officer’s name].”.
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My understanding is that Durham police decided days ago to investigate Sir Keir Starmer over beergate but held off because of purdah and fears it could sway votes.
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Durham police expected to announce an investigation into Cummings on the back of this intervention. They can use ANPR and phone data to establish pretty quickly whether he went to Barnard Castle.
BREAKING - PCC of Durham has asked the chief constable to conduct a full inquiry into Dominic Cummings visit. Says there is a "plethora of additional information" in the public domain which deserves investigation.
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Here's how police referred to their girlfriends.Officer 1: “And my bird won't stop taking the piss. Swear to got [sic] I'm going to.smack her 😂”.Officer 2: “Slap her one…say you didn’t”.Officer 1: “I`ll fucking do it. She`s fucked off home.”.
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Sarah Everard's family say they are "pleased" about his whole life sentence: "Nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back, but knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief.".
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IOPC asked police why one cop was called a “mcrapey raperson”. It was because there were rumours he brought a woman back to the station for sex. One officer said it related to him “harassing them [women], getting on them, do you know what I mean being like, just a dick.”.
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How they talk about their girlfriends/wives:.“Fuck knows what she's on about I just wanna spuff on her” (about another cop's gf].“Mate my Mrs is driving me mad - come and shag a baby into her it might shut her up bro .”.
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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid: "I am angry and disappointed to see officers involved in sharing sexist, racist and discriminatory messages. It's clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.".
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Sorry, there's more. Homophobic comments such as “Gayyyyyy”, “You fucking gay!” and “Fuck you.bender. 😂.
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Cressida Dick going down a bit of a rabbithole there on @BBCr4today suggesting the Duchess of Cambridge was legally at the Clapham Common vigil because she was working. Dick previously said she would have personally attended “if the gathering had been legal” . .
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Met police officer who joked about using someone with Downs Syndrome for Taser target practice says he didn't know "downy" was offensive term: "Almost every week there’s a new word that’s offensive. How are you supposed to know what’s offensive - and who’s it offensive to?".
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David Carrick, the serial Metropolitan police rapist, had a litany of complaints over 20 years. He worked in diplomatic protection. It is utterly staggering that in July 2021 he was arrested over rape and he was not suspended. The case was dropped and he continued working.
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Helen Ball, of the Met Police on Partygate: "We have no objections at all to Sue Gray publishing her report".
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Court told that Neville acted out a "rape fantasy" on a vulnerable, disturbed 15yo girl, who referred to restraining and pinning her down as a "struggle snuggle".
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Police officer who has not been named: "Mate they aren't gonna ditch you with your skill sets, not unless you finger a DV victim!".
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Met PC William Neville: "3 domestics back to back today".Borders: "I bet they all had one thing in common.Women that don’t listen".
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Jonathan Cobban, charged officer: That's alright, DV victims love it. That's why they are repeat victims".
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Powerful from judge in Sarah Everard case: The police are in a unique position which is essentially different from any other public servant. They have powers of coercion + control that are in an exceptional category. In this country it is expected they will act in public interest.
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Borders about a female Met colleague: “she will use me as an example. Lead me on then get me kicked up when I rape and beat her! Sneaky bitch”.
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Joel Borders: "I can't wait to get on guns so I can shoot some c**T in the face".
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Cobban: Walking through Hounslow Central is like walking through a Dulux colour code. Not even the shops were in English .Joel Borders [former Met officer]: "Hounslow twinned with Baghdad".
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Cobban: “Got a bus through Hounslow… what a fucking Somali shithole. Great. There goes pussy patrol … more like FGM patrol”.
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This is PC Keith Palmer - murdered today at Westminster
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Nick Ephgrave, senior Met officer, on Sarah Everard: "I know that the public feels hurt and angry about what has happened". Met officers remain committed to protecting Londoners and "if anything that commitment is strengthened by these tragic circumstances".
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Exclusive. Group of serving police officers are being investigated for sharing misogynistic, racist and homophobic messages with their colleague Wayne Couzens - months before he murdered Sarah Everard.
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The Met apologised for Wayne Couzens, they apologised when PCs took pics of murdered sisters, they apologise for sexism, they apologise for racism. They apologise for failing Stephen Port victims. Today they're sorry but say this doesn't represent their values. What does though?.
The Met apologises again. This time its really disturbing behaviour of officers at Charing Cross station where apparently messages about raping colleagues, killing black children + domestic violence were "jokes and banter". One cop known as the "mcrapey raperson". THREAD.
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Borders said he didn't mean to be offensive by joking about raping a colleague - "when you tell a joke, you’re not laughing at the subject of joke". As part of his defence he proffers the fact he has joked about his mother having dementia.
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Joel Borders, since resigned from the Met: ."Black people, in the 80s they were referred to as coloured. It's racist, you can’t say that now. Queer used to be offensive to gays but a lot of them now have reclaimed it. Words are always changing, what’s offensive + what’s not".
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Borders joked about raping a female colleague. He is now saying it came from a genuine concern that she would make a false sexual allegation about him because she is "underhand".
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Borders says the investigation into the WhatsApp messages has "got out of hand, [its] absolute ridiculousness". "You're trying to criminalise innocent police officers, just because you take exception to certain jokes".
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Wow. Sussex Police, who held two people for 36 hours on suspicion of Gatwick drone chaos, now say it is possible "there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place". What a palava.
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Borders says that jokes that walking through Hounslow was like a Dulux colour code but all shades of brown was "meant in a positive way". Comment that he "felt like a spot on a domino" in Feltham has been "blown out of all proportion".
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Border defending his comments that he wanted to shoot someone in the face: "I've got a teacher friend. The number of times they've said 'I want to strangle the students'. Its just a joke. I don’t know why you're questioning it, its ridiculous".
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Borders says he was an "exemplary" police officer. He is now a close protection officer and likes to help people: "I stop at traffic lights for people to cross, help them cross the road".
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Delighted to be appointed chief reporter of The Times, truly a dream job. My first piece looks at a Chinese spy who has been using fake LinkedIn profiles to target Brits and steal their secrets, said to be on an industrial scale .
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If Quentin Tarantino wrote a crime drama it wouldn't be as violent + implausible as the roleplay scenario the Met has used to teach new recruits about what faces them in London. Lecturers complained it was full of racial tropes. Here's the very, very sanitised version
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The full story about the Met colleagues of PC Wayne Couzens: Rape fantasies about colleagues and vulnerable girls, “jokes” about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims, laughing about shooting people in the face, racial slurs + homophobic language .
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Katie Everard, Sarah's older sister, asks Wayne Couzens to "please look at me" as she describes how "you disposed of my sister's body like it was rubbish".
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Before he transferred to the Met, this guy was a “race and diversity custodian” at Civil Nuclear Constabulary - the armed force that guards sensitive sites.
Cobban: “Got a bus through Hounslow… what a fucking Somali shithole. Great. There goes pussy patrol … more like FGM patrol”.
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Daniel Morgan's 1987 murder wholly tainted by corruption and collusion. An independent panel spent 8 years looking into it and concluded Met Police institutionally corrupt. Today, Met announces it has found secret docs in a secret safe and noone knew
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Statement from the Met on this - she was asked to move away from Carriage Gates to "facilitate vehicle access and egress through the gates, she was not arrested and was not asked to leave the wider area".
🔴An anti-Royal protestor holding a poster with the slogan ‘Not my king’ has been pictured being led away by police 👇
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Lord Justice Fulford describes the murder of Sarah Everard as "devastating, tragic + wholly brutal". She was the "wholly blameless" victim of a "grotesquely executed series of offences".
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This is not the full story on Wayne Couzens. Met police face serious questions re vetting + whether he could have been stopped over earlier, low level crimes. They’ve refused to comment so far citing contempt risk, but that’s gone now. Will we have transparency + accountability?.
How Wayne Couzens plotted his abduction of a woman - and his failed attempts to cover his tracks How Wayne Couzens lied to cover up plans to kill in days before abduction of Sarah Everard.
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EXCLUSIVE - Afghan refugee who lied to gain asylum has worked for the Foreign Office and Home Office, accessed "top secret" documents and even met the future King. He's also an alleged Russian spy. Full extraordinary story here by @Effy_Yeomans .⬇️.
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Stella Creasy on discovering how a man, who did not know her or her kids but disliked her views, was able to prompt a multi-agency safeguarding review. She wants consequences for people who make malicious reports after police said he had right to refer her.
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Maeve Boothby O'Neill was not just a ME patient who died at 27. She was a loving big sister. So articulate and clever. Full of promise. As she wrote herself, “I had every potential to be an asset to humanity." Maeve's voice is throughout this piece. ⬇️.
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Louise Casey was not wrong about "hair-raising". This officer was TWICE sanctioned for harassment, once for sex assault claims. He faced 11 misconduct cases incl for sharing explicit images. He was arrested for alleged sex offence. He is still serving at the Metropolitan Police
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Lord Justice Fulford praises the detectives who uncovered Wayne Couzens' crimes. There was no suggestion the Met police "closed ranks" - instead they worked "remorselessly, efficiently and impartially" to track him down and build evidence.
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PC Wayne Couzens carefully planned to abduct a woman from the streets of London. He picked Sarah Everard at random because she was walking alone. He hired the car to do it in three days earlier - and he went and picked it up after clocking off a shift at the Metropolitan Police.
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I’ll translate the Met press release on Wayne Couzens. “A man" [former police constable], "of no fixed address" [serving a whole life sentence for abduction, rape and murder] 🤦🏻♀️
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Met Police + Home Sec regularly use sub judice to refuse comment on controversial cases of police wrongdoing. Ie. important questions recently blocked re officer charged with rape because of “due process”. I’m unsurprised to see they abandon those rules when it suits their agenda.
We depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us from the most dangerous & violent in society. In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures. 1/3.
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Shocking, this. Man who didn’t like @stellacreasy views reported her to social services to have kids taken away. Totally baseless complaint resulted in safeguarding inquiry. Police told her that the man was “entitled” to make this vexatious referral!!!.
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The polar opposite - incredible story of Met PC who stopped a van without insurance and was viciously attacked with machete. He put assailant down with a Taser despite suffering head wounds, fractured skull, slash wounds + broken fingers
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Wayne Couzens, the PC who raped + murdered Sarah Everard, has been charged with two counts of exposure in June 2015 and Nov 2020. Couzens already facing trial for four counts of indecent exposure in the weeks before he kidnapped Sarah last year.
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Daniel Khalife was cycling along a towpath when a plainclothes counter-terrorism officer spotted him, pulled him off the bike and arrested him. Crucially, noone injured [him, police or the public]. Looks like top work from the Met on a challenging job.
Officers involved in the search for Daniel Khalife are focusing their efforts in and around the #Chiswick area. Khalife is believed to be wearing a black baseball cap, black t-shirt and dark-coloured bottoms, and carrying a small bag or case. Read more .
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Extraodinary IOPC update on Wayne Couzens. In 2015 he exposed himself in Dover in his car. Investigating sergeant had worked at same station. He knew Couzens' [serving cop] brother. Had Couzens' name, car reg, address. Did not arrest him. Has been found not guilty of misconduct.
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Wayne Couzens sentenced to 19 months jail for indecent exposure prior to Sarah Everard murder. It makes no material difference now, he's serving a whole life. But it raises an absolutely agonising "what if?". What if police acted against him before his sex crimes escalated.
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Maeve Boothy O'Neill had just 3 weeks to live when a ME expert wrote to chief executive of her local NHS trust. He warned of an apathy to "lifesaving treatment" because of "outdated attitudes" about the illness from NHS staff. He didn't get a response.
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Powerful victim impact statements from Jeremy, Susan and Katie Everard who have somehow found the strength to read them to the Old Bailey.
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BREAKING Wayne Couzens, Met diplomatic protection officer, has pleaded guilty to the rape and kidnap of Sarah Everard. Old Bailey told he accepts responsibility for her killing - he has not been arraigned pending medical reports.
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NEW. Coroner in Maeve Boothy O’Neill inquest has said that treatment and research for ME needs overhaul to prevent future deaths. Reg 28 rulings are too often ignored - Maeve’s case shows how desperately ME patients need action. Over to you @wesstreeting .
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Durham police will need to publicly clarify this but my source maintains they spoke to his father.
Downing Street says when Dominic Cummings travelled from London to Durham, during lockdown "at no stage was he or his family spoken to by the police about this matter, as is being reported".
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A landmark moment. Maeve Boothby-O'Neill's coroner will issue a prevention of future deaths ruling, the 1st ever for ME. What a vindication of campaigning by @TimesONeill after unimaginable loss. Let's hope the NHS finally makes necessary changes on treatment and research.
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Let's hope inquiry into Couzens + Carrick moves a bit quicker than inquiry into undercover police. £50 mill and counting, set up in 2015, no more evidence until next year. An absolutely scandalous situation that gets little coverage because of all the other scandalous situations.
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Brit police don't get enough credit for this. 117,705 firearms ops since 2010. Weapons discharged only 34 times [albeit not incl Taser].
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BREAKING Chris Cash, the Parliamentary aide accused of spying for China, is to been charged with espionage offences. He will appear in mags court on Friday. He will face charges alongside Christopher Berry.
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PC Keith Palmer, 48, was the murdered officer at Westminster. He had 15 years service, Met confirm.
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Skepticism and disbelief is a key issue in case of Maeve Boothby O'Neill, ME patient who died at 27. Against consultant + expert advice, she was put on eating disorder ward. My report on how there will be "more Maeves" without attitude change⬇️.
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Police repeatedly warned the Home Office that its proposed overhaul of the bail system was "crackers". They went ahead anyway. Now they're doing a U-turn after the changes put victims at risk and delayed investigations even further
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BREAKING - police say a man in prison in Germany is a new suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007.
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In an absolute classic of the "bury bad news on a Friday afternoon" genre, the National Crime Agency announces one of its most senior officers, Steve Rodhouse, will be moved from his role while he faces gross misconduct proceedings over Operation Midland.
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"I wish I'd been a more treatable patient". Days after heartbreaking text to GP, Maeve Boothby O'Neill died. She was just 27. Unable to eat, drink + speak, Maeve's final months were truly harrowing. My piece from landmark inquest into ME treatment⬇️.
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Utterly chilling from prosecution at Wayne Couzens sentencing. PC handcuffed Everard + put her in the car. With her hands behind her back she could not undo her seatbelt. At some point on an 80 mile journey which led to her rape and murder she “‘must have realised her fate”.
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NEW - PC sent image of his penis to former female colleague in May. Met police told her it wasn't criminal offence, he continued working under misconduct investigation. After The Times asked he's been placed under criminal investigation + restricted duties
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This picture perfectly sums up the need for the Met to explain its Partygate rationale. No fine for Simon Case who was emailed in advance + was photographed. Rishi Sunak had no advance knowledge but got fined after turning up for a meeting. Seems illogical.
This photo might as well be captioned: "Why did Simon Case not get a fixed penalty notice for this gathering"?
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Beautiful set of pictures of Sarah Everard in Times today [and not one of the evil man who killed her].I i/viewed Nick Harvey, DI who made arrest + described findging out Couzens was cop - “one of those moments that the bottom falls out of your stomach”
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