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14 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Priti Patel told police she wanted an “early intervention” in the Extinction Rebellion protest outside a Rupert Murdoch-owned printworks, a court has heard

The officer who commanded the operation said his decisions were not affected by the home secretary

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
An independent review of the Herts Police operation highlighted the “volume of contact” between the home secretary and chief constable, adding:

“Political contact needs to be carefully considered in future to avoid decision-making falling outside recognised command structures"
Assistant chief Constable Owen Wetherill, who was gold commander for the protest, denied being put under “political pressure” himself and said his decisions on how to respond to protesters were not affected

The court heard the chief constable called Mr Weatherill at 4.45am...
...to ask if the removal of protesters could be “expedited" following a conversation with the home sec

Officers on the ground said it wasn't possible. Mr Wetherill said: “Neither he nor the home secretary got the answer that they wanted.”

The trial of 6 protesters continues

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15 Jun
The Met Police has changed its statement over a BBC journalist being chased at an anti- lockdown protest

lts initial statement "suggested officers were not in the immediate vicinity of the incident" but footage showed them there and failing to intervene or help
Met says first statement "was drafted based on the 45 second video of the incident which was shared very widely on social media this morning. That video began on Richmond Terrace and out of sight of officers on nearby Whitehall....
...We were subsequently made aware of a longer piece of footage lasting 3 minutes and 28 seconds which shows the incident in full. It is clear that the incident began on Whitehall where officers were present"

Met says it "acknowledges concerns raised about the police response"
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15 Jun
The Met Police has been accused of “institutional corruption” following a £16m probe into the unsolved murder of private detective Daniel Morgan

An independent panel said it was using term "in the present tense" and criticised commissioner Cressida Dick
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
The panel concluded that the force’s “first objective was to protect itself” over allegations corrupt officers were involved in the murder

There have been no successful prosecutions despite four major police investigations and other probes, and evidence was "irretrievably lost"
Dame Cressida Dick was personally criticised for the way she handled the inquiry's access to police records and systems

The panel did not call for her resignation but Mr Morgan's brother Alastair said she should 'consider' it. We have a conference at Scotland Yard at 4pm
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15 Jun
Police have issued a warning over the potential use of 3D-printed guns by terrorists after the first UK case involving the homemade weapons

Neo-Nazi Dean Morrice had parts of a 3D-printed firearm at his home near Bristol, alongside bomb components

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
Morrice shared the manifesto of Stephan Balliet, who took a partly 3D-printed gun on a 2019 rampage targeting Muslims and Jews in Germany

Balliet called it “live testing” and listed his primary objective as “proving the viability of improvised weapons”

independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
Morrice, a former British army driver, also shared manifestos by the Christchurch and Norway shooters, and ran his own social media channel that encouraged far-right terror attacks

Police said he had “terrorist intentions” himself. He was jailed for 18 years
Read 5 tweets
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13 Jun
Exclusive: Another terror attack by a released prisoner is “in the pipeline” because of a lack of control over extremists in British jails, the government has been warned

Evidence heard at inquests into the Fishmongers' Hall attack sparked fresh concern

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Weeks after Usman Khan's attack, his associates at HMP Whitemoor tried to murder a police officer inside the jail

Following that, there were two further terror attacks by released prisoners - in Streatham and Reading
Ian Acheson @NotThatBigIan, who carried out review of Islamist extremism in prisons, said: “There are good people doing their best to make sure that another outrage won't happen, but being good isn't the same as doing well. Another Khan is in the pipeline.”
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19 Mar
The right to protest must be specifically written into coronavirus laws, according to a report calling the current situation “a mess”

Parliment's human rights committee said the response to Sarah Everard vigils showed clarity is “urgently” needed

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
It said the law must be changed “to make it clear that protest is permitted if conducted in a manner that reduces public health risks to an acceptable level”

The committee has drafted additions to the Health Protection Regulations, which neither explicitly ban or allow protest
“The events of last weekend show clearly how the lack of clarity and level of uncertainty in the law is unacceptable and must be remedied as a matter of urgency,” chair Harriet Harman said

"It’s clear that the law is in a mess.”

And that mess looks set to continue this weekend
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18 Mar
Exclusive: Tommy Robinson appealed for donations to carry out what he said was journalistic work

We obtained original footage from one of his videos that went viral at the time, about a 'migrant attack' in Italy - and what it shows is very different

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
The video, titled “Italy: What Really Happened when a Migrant Attacked”, showed Robinson punching a man to the ground while supposedly defending himself and his employee

The footage sparked international news coverage and was widely shared on social media
Robinson’s former producer Caolan Robertson has claimed the video was heavily edited “propaganda”, which distorted the incident - Robinson denies that

The original footage shows Robinson shoving the man into the road and then pushing him into the path of an oncoming car
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