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I've seen the body worn. I never judge incidents unless I was there or have heard people who were.
But I'm going to judge this.
This is a serious breach of at least three established operational protocols. Basic day one training school stuff.
It's sloppiness, pure and simple.
Since the murder of Henry Nowak there has been stony silence from the Government.
Not a peep from the Home Secretary.
Not a word from the Prime Minister who is normally quick to respond to deaths involving the police, both in the UK and abroad.
Remember the spectacle of him ‘taking the knee’ over George Floyd’s death? He won’t even say Henry Nowak’s name.
Henry’s death constituted a national scandal. An 18 year old, robbed of his future on a night out in Southampton after being brutally stabbed 6 times with a 21cm long ceremonial sword. Instead of helping him, the police initially arrested him as he bled to death after he was accused by his attacker of racial harassment. Henry was treated not as the victim, but as the criminal.
His murder could not have been more monstrous; the police response more shameful.
So why has this appalling injustice been met with a collective shrug by politicians in Westminster? With the exception of a couple of us including Henry’s local MP, Jen Craft, it has not been raised in the House of Commons.
I asked the Home Secretary to launch an investigation into the police’s conduct and a debate on two-tier policing - needless to say I was rebuffed.
The silence can be explained by the fact that most politicians are more interested in showing their supposed virtue by favouring minority communities at the expense of the majority. So they look away at injustices perpetrated by minorities, lest it colour the multicultural illusion they have that the country is a harmonious melting pot. And they ignore prejudiced laws and the conventions of so-called ‘anti-racism’ which lead to discrimination against the majority.
The trial of Henry’s killer, Vickrum Digwa, may be over, but the questions are only just beginning.
Why did the police arrest Henry based on one allegation he had made a racial slur - something the prosecution described as a “wicked lie”?
Why was Henry’s handcuffing and arrest considered a priority for the police when he was in a critical condition?
Why do perceived racial sensitivities consistently appear to shape how the police enforce the law these days?
The police have now apologised. But ‘sorry’ doesn’t cut it. Not remotely. Heads must roll for such a catastrophic failure. The bodycam footage must be released. And the police’s “anti-racist” training programmes need overhaul.
We can’t go back in time and undo what has been done. Henry’s family and friends will live with this forever.
But his tragic death should be a turning point. A clarion call for the authorities to act in a colour-blind way - treating people under the principle of equality before the law.
Today, a man has been convicted of the murder of student Henry Nowak in Southampton. Throughout the trial, we have not discussed this case publicly to ensure that justice could be done but now we can share a message from DCC Robert France.
https://t.co/13203Yq9DA
@HantsPolice So, your officers arrived at the scene and arrested a dying man based on nothing but accusations by his assailant?
Your officers arrived on a “complex” and confusing scene, yet immediately handcuffed the only person who wasn’t a threat.
https://t.co/89r2TEELCF
A Green Party council election candidate has literally admitted to running an “Anne Frank” social media account in which she openly called for the extermination of Jews.
She is still a Green Party council candidate.
Just a couple of days ago we were alerted that the Iranian embassy had sent a request for “martyrs”.
The government didn’t act, they summoned the ambassador.
Today Iranian islamist terrorist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), has claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack in North London.
Still this Labour government has NOT proscribed the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.
Labour are legislating to prosecute soldiers who served in Northern Ireland.
As a lawyer Lord Hermer went after British troops in Iraq over baseless claims.
Starmer worked with Hermer and the disgraced Phil Shiner.
This is who our PM is.
https://t.co/bMimHYTuo2
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The officer who brought mum home after her wrongful arrest and 11 hours in custody dumped her on the curb was trying to do one. .. I collared him and said "oi I want a word".
I insisted he opened a safeguarding log and said directly to him "this will kill my mum".
This was how he chose to record it. I requested his BWV and apparently he "honesty thought it was recording".
But it wasn't - His recollection 14 months after the event was satisfactory for the PSD to not uphold my complaint.
This is the ONLY contemporaneous record that I have been given by @Cumbriapolice - where's the rest of what I requested? something to hide???
Please sign and share my petition 🙏🙏
https://t.co/5C3BWq4Dnv
So you price young people out of the labour market with huge rises in the minimum wage and national insurance.
Then you subsidise employers to employ young people.
Government is brilliant. Simply brilliant.
Another act of constitutional vandalism by Labour
Baroness Hooper once told me that when she was a Gov't Whip, she would think nothing about applying a three-line whip to the life peers
But she would never dream of applying a three-line whip to the hereditary peers.
Why? Because they had a nobler attitude to politics.
Representing - and embodying - centuries of heritage, the hereditary peers prioritized the long-term interests of the nation over the short term interests and machinations of party politics.
If that meant defying the Whip, so be it.
They are now gone. And we are left with an upper chamber filled with cronies, vast numbers of substandard quality who dishonour the once noble house.