Nazir Afzal, a former regional chief prosecutor, has questioned the impartiality of Durham police, the Met and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after they all rejected his requests for a thorough investigation into alleged lockdown breaches by Dominic Cummings. The inaction of police and prosecutors has prompted Afzal and his lawyers to begin preparing a dossier of evidence on Cummings’ lockdown movements at the height of the pandemic. They also asked Durham police to reopen its investigation into Cummings movements in the county, claiming its initial three-day probe was “short, narrow and limited”. But it made no finding over Cummings’ initial decision to leave London, because it was confined to his movements in County Durham. The CPS told Afzal it would take no action unless invited to do so by the police.

Source: The Guardian August 02, 2020 20:02 UTC