Priti Patel’s criticism of the Metropolitan Police in this week’s Sunday Times left me appalled. A Home Office source said that the home secretary regarded the commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, and deputy commissioner, Sir Steve House, as ‘tin eared’. Apparently, all the senior police chiefs are the same, and must …
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Having spent nearly 40 years of my life in policing, a lot of it as a Metropolitan Police detective, during which time I investigated, among other high-profile cases, the disappearance and assumed murder of the estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, the initial reports of the disappearance of Sarah Everard from a …
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The sentence was handed down to the former Metropolitan Police officer by Lord Justice Adrian Fulford on Thursday. The 48-year-old was convicted of the brutal abduction, rape and murder of marketing manager Sarah Everard on March 3 as she walked home from her friend’s house in Clapham, south London. Couzens used his …
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London Metropolitan Police constable Wayne Couzens, assigned to protect diplomatic premises, has been formally charged with the kidnapping and murder of Everard that sent shockwaves across Britain. Couzens is set to appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. He was arrested in relation to Everard’s disappearance early March, and remains …
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