Simon Cooper

Toon fan. Former SL/PL in Law - Universities of Leeds, Newcastle & Salford. Ex GMP. Specialist in Criminal Law and Evidence. Retweets are not endorsements.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔

If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.

Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚

For You. For Grace. For Ian.

[Jordan Tyldesley @PippyBing]

The core part of the Henry Nowak murder (the part we must not forget and must seriously engage with) is that his killer and family instinctively thought to fabricate a racism narrative because they knew it would give them an immediate advantage and invert the roles at the scene. And it worked exactly as calculated.

It has struck a raw nerve because it makes visible in the most repulsive way imaginable what many have long sensed, that accusations of racism have become a powerful, paralysing force in modern Britain eventually leading to a dying boy being sidelined while the system instinctively prioritised accusations of racism.

[Service @notlistenning1]

Police training started to fail when national training centres were closed.
Police training started to fail when you needed to be a uni graduate to apply ( they now realise that mistake)
Wake up @PoliceChiefs @CollegeofPolice

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@DonnaDlm71 One of my concerns is that the IOPC, also being DEI obsessed, will not identify any kind of misconduct on anyone’s part. They’ve already been looking at this for 6 months and openly said that they have not, as yet, identified any misconduct. Will the public accept that?

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@sherlock_comms Yes. And it will be interesting to see what the IOPC conclude. They’ve already been looking at the case for 6 months and given that they are also DEI obsessed, I’m not sure their conclusions will be accepted by the public. Let’s see.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@bagshaw2112 Anita Harris

[Cherie @MNE42CDO]

Taken from Facebook:
Kelly Hatchard

“To me, Henry wasn't a headline or a court case. He was my best friends funny, caring, cheeky son. Henry had a way of making people smile without even trying. He had so much life ahead of him, so many plans, and so much love to give. When Henry was just a baby, Lucy gave me the honour of being his godmother. Our kids, like us shared their childhood. Henry's loved ones were just normal people and we were enjoying watching our kids grow into adults, naively taking for granted that we would see all the wonderful things that life had to offer them.

On December 5th 2025, when the news broke, life as we knew it stopped.

My focus in what I want to say will always be Henry and Henry's family.

But, nothing I could ever say would come close to explaining the pain of losing Henry. But alongside the heartbreak of losing Henry has been the pain of watching one of the kindest families I have ever known have their entire world torn apart.

I was lucky enough to grow up with the family of my best friends Lucy (Henry's Mum) and Katie (Henry's aunty). The family make everyone feel welcome. Their home is filled with kindness, warmth and laughter. No matter what life throws at them they always find a way to bring light to those around them. They are generous with their time, compassionate in their hearts, and the sort of people who make others feel like family too, including me and then my children. Their laughter is infectious, their support unwavering, and their love for one another shines through in everything they do.

My heart is broken for them, a very large part of them died on the day that monster chose to rip Henry from their lives. Yet even through their darkest days they continued to be the wonderful people that they are. Their focus during these dark times was to shine a light on and raise money for the charity that has helped them.

Then, 6 months after Henry's death, the heart ache continued as they had to face the trial. Being subjected to sit in a room with the monster who brutally murdered their son and watch the lies spill so easily from his mouth. A man who has not once showed an an ounce of remorse for what he did. They endured a living nightmare.

Thinking that things could not possibly get worse, in the last few weeks they have learned that the very institution that is there to protect us not only ignored Henry's plea for help, but they sided with the monster who put him on the ground .

Henry's family learned that his last moments were not only spent so afraid of the monster who attacked him but he was then wronged and let down by the police officer who I have no doubt, Henry assumed was there to help him.

That police officer handcuffed Henry and read him his rights. The last thing my best friend's beautiful boy heard before we lost him forever.

This image, we will never ever be able to erase from our minds. Family, friends and now the world, will have seen that image and we all have to live with it forever.

Shame on the monster who took you, shame on the police officer who should have helped you and shame on the organisation that trained the police officer to side with an incorrect racist slur over a dying young man. Shame on you all!!

You treated a loving caring intelligent hardworking young man, with such disregard and disrespect. You treated Henry's family, such good people, with such dishonesty! The lies have been inforgivable !! HOW DARE YOU.

Henry deserved so much more from this life. Henry and his family have been let down so badly.

THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN TO ANYONE, ANYONE'S CHILD.

This has to stop now.

Henry we will fight until the end for you. The world will know your name. You changed our lives for the better for being a part of it, I believe you will now go on to change the lives of others by the legacy you will leave.

God bless you my darling 💙”

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”.

Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”.

The absurdity of modern Britain.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Current and former Hampshire Constabulary officers are describing a “cult” of diversity, equity and inclusion that has consumed the force from the top down.

Officers say they live in daily fear of career-ending accusations of racism — however unfounded — which shapes every operational decision they make.

This is not a fringe complaint.

This is serving police officers describing an institution so ideologically captured that intervening to help a white man being stabbed became, in the calculus of that culture, a career risk.

Hampshire’s leadership publicly declared that being “anti-racist, ethical and inclusive” was “top of the agenda.”

Top. Of. The agenda.

Not catching criminals.
Not protecting the public. Not saving lives.

The death of Henry Nowak is the answer to the question: what happens when you run a police force on those priorities?

[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

'I don't think you have Mate', should go down in history as the line that inspired huge change within British policing, but it won't, because most senior officers are DEI and other woke nonsense obsessed tossers.
@PoliceChiefs @CollegeofPolice

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@PD_Sable @AllisonPearson @GBNEWS Agreed. Totally abysmal policing. And totally inhumane.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@InspGadgetBlogs Ermmm…come on. Handcuffing an immobile, incapacited teenager who offers absolutely no resistance? Disdainfully saying “I don’t think so mate”..
The sentencing remarks are somewhat generous. This was incompetent and partisan policing.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@colinsutton I agree Colin. It would also help to get rid of crimes that treat those with ‘protected characteristics’ more seriously. We should ALL be treated equally irrespective of race/gender/religion.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@BettyBoochichi2 So, let’s see the body cam footage. Even though the case is being looked at by the IOPC that is not sufficient reason to withhold it. The IOPC does not have a jury that can be prejudiced.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@sergeantdixie @DonnaDlm71 @BettyBoochichi2 Violent racist? Was there any credible evidence of Henry being a violent racist? None that I can see. Just the word of an uninjured Sikh saying it was so. Nothing to merit handcuffs at all. No resistance. No fighting the officers.

[Simon Cooper @coopers58]

@DonnaDlm71 And the DCC tries to excuse this by saying that the officers were faced with an “extremely complex crime scene”. What utter crap that is. It’s a routine situation for officers to be faced with two people at loggerheads each blaming the other. Abysmal policing.

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

Adding VAT onto private school fees looks to be one of the worst education policy decisions of recent decades. Forced closure of good schools, disrupted children's education, and likely to cost taxpayers more than will ever be recuperated. Terrible.

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

I want to shout out loud, for those who may not know.
The MG6D schedule is the UK police schedule used to list unused material deemed too sensitive for disclosure. Files are only placed here if disclosing them would risk prejudice to an important public interest (E.g. informant identities or national security).
The only file placed on the MG6D schedule by CPS midlands Alan Murphy and condoned by HMCPSI Anthony Rogers was Dc Neil Beddoe’s report……explain?
Dc Beddoe you did your job. I commend you.
Others……resign, you covered up vital information.

https://t.co/NXpRHtnazf

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

I lost my beloved daughter Grace O’Malley-Kumar in the Nottingham attacks. She was a 19 year old medical student. She fought a marauding man almost twice her age armed with a dagger. She tried to protect a friend and paid the ultimate price. She placed,
‘friendship before fear’
#graceomalleykumarfoundation #graceomalleykumarcup

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The reputation of British police is in the gutter.
Ideologically captured, taught white self-hatred by the College of Policing, they no longer police for the majority of the country.
They are more scared of “racism” than letting an innocent boy die.
This has to change.
@WestYorksPolice