The Metropolitan Police was already fire for the way it handled the vigil for the murder victim Sarah Everard TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILLThe charge sheet against the Metropolitan Police was already a long one. It extends from the heavy-handed attempts to break up the Sarah Everard protests in March which contrasted with the extraordinarily light touch taken against Extinction Rebellion protesters when they paralysed London for two weeks in 2019; from its handling of the Daniel Morgan murder investigation, which led an official inquiry to brand the force “institutionally corrupt”; to Operation Midland, the Westminster sex abuse investigation that ruined the lives of innocent public figures on the testimony of a fantasist. It includes allegations that officers posed for selfies with the bodies of the victims of the Wembley park murders to the apparent failure to investigate PC Wayne Couzens, who was reported for indecent

Source: The Times July 13, 2021 22:52 UTC