#Madeleine
Home Office ministers have approved £150,000 continued funding for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Pros: PC Harper left with most awful injuries from which he died. Uniform stripped from his body. He died totally naked apart from socks and boots. A completely senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty.
#Madeleine
Home Office approves another six months of funding - around £150,000 - for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The probe has cost more than £11m so far.
Pros: Another motorist thought there was a bloodied deer attached to the car. PC Harper was barely alive when he became untangled but died soon after where he lay. Fellow officers tried desperately to save him.
#Assange
Def: He and his lawyers very much alive to risk of rendition from Sweden to US. Sweden had surrendered two suspects to Egypt, “a country well known to practise torture with the assistance of US.
Pros: Two officers responded to report of theft of a quad bike from private house. The three defendants admit conspiracy to steal the bike. Two officers had finished shift, but they responded because they thought they could help and were close by.
#EvertonFC
Police have scrapped an investigation into child sex allegations against a former Everton footballer. The player was arrested by Greater Manchester Police two years ago. The club confirmed at the time it had suspended the player pending the outcome.
#PCYvonneFletcher
#Justice
40 years on, supports remember the officer shot dead from within the Libyan embassy as she policed anti-Gaddafi protest. Campaigners say they are close to launching a private prosecution of a suspect, a former Libyan minister.
At Old Bailey for trial in the alleged murder of PC Andrew Harper. Henry Long, 18, and two 17-year-old boys who can’t be named because of their age, deny murder. Long admits manslaughter. All admit stealing a quad bike on the night PC Harper died in Aug.
#Assange
Def: He has stayed in Sweden initially to be interviewed by police and left only when he was told he could do so. He offered to return for more questioning.
#CarlBeech
Proctor: I have icy contempt for Carl Beech. The allegations he made were the worst that can be made, murder torture and sex abuse of children. I find it extraordinary that an institution I once held in high regard allowed itself to believe such false allegations
#IOPC
Home Sec on IOPC resignation: “I took immediate action upon being made aware that Mr Lockwood was the subject of a police investigation into an historic allegation, and instructed my officials to ask him to resign or face immediate suspension from his role.”
Pros: Three defendants arrested later that night at a travellers caravan site from where they had set off for their crime and returned to it. Long told police brazen lies. Two teenagers made no comment.
#Assange
Def: He feared being kidnapped wherever he was in the world and taken to US, renditioned. There were calls for his execution and assassination.
Pros: You will have to hear about his absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries but you will be relieved to hear there is no need to see photographs.
Pros: Driver Long knee full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap. He drove along narrow country lane at average 42.5 mph speed, leaving behind snaking trail of apparent tyre marks, a radio and scuff marks, blood and body matter on road surface.
Pros: you can see one defendant trying to get into the rear door. He’s wearing a hood or balaclava and then car moves off marooning him. Quadbike is rolling forward behind the car. PC Harper’s widow Lissie and his brother have left court.
#Assange
Def: In Nove 2014 Swedish Court of Appeal said Swedish prosecution was wrong over an impasse in the investigation. Later he was interviewed in Ecuadorian embassy and Swedish case was dropped shortly after that.
#CarlBeech
Outside court ahead of sentence Daniel Janner QC, son of late Lord Janner who was one of those Beech falsely accused, attacked Labour deputy leader Tom Watson who promoted Beech’s claims: “Watson should hang his head in shame, apologise and resign”.
#MadeleineMcCann
Home Office has approved another year’s funding - £300,000 - for the Scotland Yard investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Pros: If Long and his friends had no idea Andrew was entangled in the strap why was there a need to drive so recklessly? It’s ludicrous idea that teenager did not tell the other two that a policeman had got within feet of him before he jumped In the car.
#WayneCouzens
#AngioliniReport
#SarahEverard
Family: “We no longer wait for her call; we no longer expect to see her. We know she won't be there at family gatherings. But the desperate longing to have her with us remains and the loss of Sarah pervades every part of our lives.”
#NicolaBulley
Lancs Police: update: Nicola had suffered significant issues with alcohol brought on by ongoing struggles with menopause and struggles had resurfaced over recent months.
#CarlBeech
Daniel Janner’s voice breaks as he reads impact statement: reading Beech’s allegations made me physically sick. They are corrosive and lie on the Internet while ignorant people say there’s no smoke without fire. My father never harmed anyone in his life.
Pros: Police did huge work on investigation, including tracing witnesses and analysing vast amounts of phone data to see where defendants went. Vast amounts of cctv too. Jurors will see various clips.
#CarlBeech
Pros: Beech had debts, spending beyond his means. He intended to become a speaker around the world on subject of survivors. He began his memoirs. Speaking and writing would give him an audience and probably an income.
#southernrailway
The clock at my station is STILL an hour fast, causing brief, but unnecessary panic and angst for commuters. My ticket office pal is not allowed to climb a ladder to fix it because of health and safety rules. The maintenance man is on holiday for a fortnight.
#NicolaBulley
Peter Faulding and Specialist Group International team joining river search for missing mum Nicola Bulley in Lancashire 11 days after she vanished while walking her dog.
Jurors watch police camera footage showing alleged meeting with defendants car on dark country lane. Car drives off with tow rope dangling. Driver PC Shaw swears and radios in that he’s lost his colleague.
#timwestwood
After women’s claims of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour against ex-Radio One hip hop DJ Tim Westwood, which he strongly denies, Scot Yard says it’s investigating four sex crime allegations against ‘a man’ going back to 1982.
#CarlBeech
Lord Bramall: 20 cops raided my home where my wife was bed-ridden and she died before I was cleared. Some of the cops had lunch in the local pub. It was soon known what was happening.
Pros: Long has pleaded guilty to the officer’s manslaughter but denies his murder, denies knowing he was dragging PC Harper behind the car. Denies an intention to kill the officer or cause him really serious injury.
#Madeleine
Scot Yard is to continue its investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Police asking Home Office for another six months’ funding to support joint operation with Portuguese police.
#NicolaBulley
Lancs Police: As result of those issues, a response car staffed by police and health professionals attended a report of concern for welfare at Nicola’s home address on January 10th. No one has been arrested in relation to this incident, but it is being investigated.
#ConstanceMarten
Met police say couple initially arrested for child neglect, now held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Police still searching for missing baby of Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon. 200 cops searching near Brighton
#Queen
Thames Valley Police say 100,000 mourners watched the Queen’s final journey through Windsor today, with 2,000 officers on duty including colleagues from 28 other UK forces. Their operation is still going on.
Brilliant musician and great story teller. Fab live performer and regular at Kenney Jones’s Rock ‘n’ Horsepower festivals. Rock star Steve Harley dies after short battle with cancer one month after pausing tour - Mirror Online
Jurors shown second police car footage showing PC Harper’s colleague driving after defendants car. Tyre marks appear to move from side to side on the road. Police car stops at flashing emergency light and police officer standing over a figure lying on the road.
Pros: The stolen quad bike was tied behind the car with one of the teenage defendants riding it. It was a carefully planned crime. They wore gloves and masks and had disconnected all their rear and brake lights. So they could disappear into the night.
#NicolaBulley
Lancs Police: It is an unusual step for us to take to go into this level of detail about someone’s private life, but we felt it was important to clarify what we meant when we talked about vulnerabilities to avoid any further speculation or misinterpretation.