Sarah Chambers🇺🇦💙

SW London fan, coffee addict, Pilates lover, keen traveller, interest in policing and crime - H & F IAG Chair, H & F Stop and Search Monitoring Group

[James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @EasyPeasy_3]

PLEASE RETWEET. Still no news, unfortunately. Let’s have another go at this. Remember - all we know is where he made the stem cell donation. He could be from anywhere, but likely Poland. Let’s find this young hero. A family will never thank him enough.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates:

1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents

2. End exemption for charity shops.

3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@raelbrav Cat check: Braverman's wife was Home Secretary who had responsibility for managing legislation relating to police powers in England and Wales

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Joe Whelan @sergeantdixie]

There is a feature of the murder of Henry Novak that was pointed out by an ex colleague this morning.

People were shocked at seeing the video of his death.

Imagine dealing with traumatic death & violence on the street every day for 30 years. That’s a policeman’s lot.
1/5

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.

In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’

It’s not some woke conspiracy.

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

@KemiBadenoch Umm, shall we start with the decade of austerity, decimated Officer and Staff numbers, endless Police Station closures caused by your party, or are we still crying wolf?

[Cllr Tanisha Bramwell @tanishabramwell]

In Finland school meals are free for all children until the age of 16.

In Japan, only qualified nutritionists are allowed to prepare and serve school meals.

Meanwhile in the UK, we’re arguing about whether kids deserve to be fed at all.

FREE school meals for all children!

[James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @EasyPeasy_3]

His date of birth is 17 Dec 2005. Please retweet this. If you know him, please tell him to remain anonymous. He just needs to contact DKMS, even if it’s to say ‘no’. That would give us closure.

[Toni @toniwriter]

Many of you viciously attacked me when I repeatedly warned that he was high risk for mental ill health & suicide, stating he should be appropriately safeguarded. As a senior leader publicly shamed, he’ll remain high risk for a long time but I hope he comes through it.

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

A man was violently stabbed to death.
The murderer was arrested and convicted.
One of the murderer's family members was also convicted of aiding and abetting him.
No, I am not talking about poor Henry Nowak; I am talking about poor Mohammed Algassim, a Saudi Arabian student, here to learn English, who was murdered in Cambridge by a drunken, coked-up, white Englishman.
If you are astute enough to go to the BBC News website, then click on "England",
then click on "Local News",
then click on "East"
then click on "Cambridge"
you will find a report on it...
#TwoTierOutrage
https://t.co/rrwCqNWJ4a

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

15 men, convicted of 88 counts of rape, against one child.

This is a grim reminder that we still don't know the full extent of the grooming gangs.

We don't know how many perpetrators, or victims, are out there, or where gangs like these are still operating.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

A certain group of people are treating the Nowak case as if DEI training caused a one-off failure. It wasn't a one-off. This is a pattern of officers not following basic duty of care, and it has nothing to do with diversity training.

Case 1: Stephen Reardon, July 2023. Arrested in St Austell, collapsed minutes into a police van journey. CCTV showed him having seizures and visibly trembling. The officer watching through the Perspex divide said he was "playing games". His name was called 63 times. No response. He spent 22 minutes on the van floor. Neither officer stopped to check on him despite both being first-aid trained. Found dead at the station. Both officers dismissed for gross misconduct.

Case 2: Jerome Cowan, December 2022. Found slumped in a Coventry library toilet, intoxicated, unable to stand or stay awake. Officers removed him from the cubicle and placed him on the floor. He stopped breathing. Died in hospital. The inquest found missed opportunities in the level of care that may have contributed to his death. The IOPC found failures to provide first aid and to treat him with dignity. Three constables and a PCSO now face gross misconduct proceedings.

Case 3: Man in St Erth, November 2022. Found drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station at 1am on a cold autumn night. Officers called an ambulance but left before it arrived. Didn't move him to shelter. Didn't cover him. Drove past at 2:20am without stopping. Returned at 5am to find him rain-soaked, then sat in their car rather than providing aid. His condition deteriorated. He died in hospital. Both officers dismissed.

Same failure every time. A person in distress needs help. Officers dismiss it, delay, or walk away. No first aid. No urgency. No basic human response. Not a single one of these cases involved DEI training as a factor.

The problem isn't a diversity course. The problem is a culture where officers treat vulnerable people in their care as an inconvenience. DEI is the scapegoat. The conduct is the issue.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Henry Nowak's mother has said:

"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."

And there you have it.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1965, a 17-year-old girl in Sicily was kidnapped, assaulted, and held captive for over a week.

Then her attacker offered her a deal:

Marry him, and everything would be “forgiven.”

At the time, Italian law allowed rapists to avoid punishment if they married their victims.

It was called “reparatory marriage.”

The logic was horrifying:

A woman’s “honor” mattered more than her consent.

If she married the man who violated her, her reputation could supposedly be restored — and the rapist could walk free.

Most women had no real choice.

Families pressured them.
Communities expected obedience.
The law itself encouraged silence.

But Franca Viola said no.

At 17 years old, traumatized and publicly shamed, she refused to marry the man who assaulted her.

That single word changed Italy forever.

Her decision sparked outrage in her town.

Neighbors turned against her family.
Their vineyards and olive groves were burned in retaliation.

But Franca’s father stood beside her and supported her decision to press charges.

In 1966, Franca testified publicly against her attacker in court.

At a time when most victims were expected to stay silent forever, she spoke openly in front of the entire country.

Italy watched in shock.

Her attacker, Filippo Melodia, was convicted and sentenced to prison.

For the first time in Italian history, a woman had publicly rejected “reparatory marriage” and won.

The case became international news.

But the law itself still remained.

For another 15 years, rapists in Italy could technically still escape punishment by marrying their victims.

Then finally, in 1981, Italy abolished the law completely.

And many activists pointed to Franca Viola as the moment the country first began confronting the cruelty of that system.

Years later, Franca married a childhood friend who had stood beside her through everything.

Not because she needed her “honor restored.”

But because she deserved love, dignity, and a life defined by her own choices.

That’s why her story still matters.

Franca Viola wasn’t just resisting one man.

She was resisting an entire culture that treated women’s suffering as something to hide rather than something to fight.

At 17 years old, she stood against her attacker, her community, and even the law itself.

And eventually, the law changed.

Sometimes history moves because powerful people decide to act.

And sometimes history moves because one terrified teenager quietly refuses to surrender.

[Remoulade Sauce @Remisagoodboy]

Bravo!

A gentle reminder that this quote from Norman Hartnell, would hold true for the Royal Ladies of today, just as well as it did for their late majesties. Camilla, Catherine and Sophie

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

I feel badly for the Sikh community in the UK, who are largely law-abiding.

Henry Nowak was murdered by one individual, and holding an entire community responsible for this is wrong.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger on Brexit: “Putin would have been absolutely delighted by our decision.”

“So would Xi. France has effectively eclipsed us. Brexit has marginalised us.” Most striking of all: “Just nobody mentions the UK.”

Very sad that Sir Alex Younger, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, born on July 4, 1963, died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 2026, aged 62

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

State agencies responding to tragedy (and who should often have prevented tragedy) need to hold at front of minds one key principle. The terrible thing does the initial harm but you as responders are capable of doing terrible harms also

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@antmiddleton Celebrating police officers being injured is disgusting but is a reminder that Middleton was convicted of the unlawful wounding of a male police officer and the common assault of a female police officer in 2013