Tom Symonds

Essex Chief Constable has asked the National Police Chiefs Council to review it's handling of the case - accepting there were strong opposing views. “That’s why we work so hard to remain impartial and to investigate allegations, regardless of where they might lead" force says

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BREAKING: Essex Police to take "no further action" following criminal investigation into Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson who was accused of inciting racial hatred after she commented on a picture on X last year. Follows advice given to the force by the Crown Prosecution

BREAKING: Essex Police to take "no further action" following criminal investigation into Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson who was accused of inciting racial hatred after she commented on a picture on X last year. Follows advice given to the force by the Crown Prosecution

Chris Kaba shot man in nightclub days before his death - revealed after reporting restriction which has been in place for months was lifted at the Old Bailey https://t.co/Rm25ny2fYJ

RT @BBCLondonNews: BREAKING: Martyn Blake, the firearms officer who shot Chris Kaba during a police stop, has been found not guilty of murd…

Migrant took own life after 'multiple failings' at UK detention centre - inquest jury finds in case of Frank Ospina the BBC revealed last year. https://t.co/e3JUqco4s9

A Metropolitan Police firearms officer took an "unjustified" decision to shoot Chris Kaba, during an incident in September 2022 despite the fact there was no "immediate threat to life", a prosecutor has told an Old Bailey jury. https://t.co/lt6r9fHpKN

Martyn Blake, 40 denies a single count of murder.

Tom Little KC tells jury "was this a case of mistaken belief as to risk, or as we say, was this an unlawful decision to kill." "Nothing Chris Kaba did in the seconds before he was shot justified the defendant's decision to shoot" he says.

Jury told Chris Kaba had reversed back from a police car blocking his path at the time the trigger was pulled by officer Martyn Blake who is on trial for murder.

A Metropolitan Police firearms officer took an "unjustified" decision to shoot Chris Kaba, during an incident in September 2023 despite the fact there was no "immediate threat to life", a prosecutor has told an Old Bailey jury.

Outstanding question: GMC says it couldn't have investigated why Al-Fayed seemingly had intimate health information in this case. But had the GMC received other complaints about Harrods medical tests in the past giving it a bigger picture?

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NEW: BBC discovers the independent doctors' regulator the General Medical Council refused to investigate alleged medical malpractice at Harrods in 2017 because too much time had passed and it wasn’t “in the greater public interest”. https://t.co/eV8egmP0hG https://t.co/qwJs4BmNXa

NEW: BBC discovers the independent doctors' regulator the General Medical Council refused to investigate alleged medical malpractice at Harrods in 2017 because too much time had passed and it wasn’t “in the greater public interest”. https://t.co/eV8egmP0hG https://t.co/qwJs4BmNXa

The @ukhomeoffice says it is "committed to ensuring" the abuse at Brook House never happens again. Conservatives published an update in March tracking progress but Kate Eves says there need to be clear commitments

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The chair of a public inquiry into abuse at Brook House Immigration Centre goes public to ask why government(s) have only agreed to one of her 33 recommendations. It's a year since Kate Eves' report into the abuse scandal, uncovered by BBC Panorama https://t.co/csNYFquYrU

The chair of a public inquiry into abuse at Brook House Immigration Centre goes public to ask why government(s) have only agreed to one of her 33 recommendations. It's a year since Kate Eves' report into the abuse scandal, uncovered by BBC Panorama https://t.co/csNYFquYrU

The chain of cover-ups that led to Grenfell - UnHerd. ⁦@PeteApps⁩ whose book is excellent. Points out here the attempts by government POST Grenfell to claim the cladding on the building had been ‘banned’. Proven not true by the ban later announced https://t.co/kBFNGPRvnj

A tale of two towers - how fire safety differs at luxury London high-rise and Margate estate https://t.co/qmESlqy1en

BBC News At Ten coverage of the Grenfell Tower inquiry report https://t.co/1GHfcdIJnj https://t.co/U5rNHfiAr6