Police chief ‘asked Rudkubana’s trust not to reveal’

The Chief Constable of Mercesis has said that he was told by a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) official not to issue factual information about the person he arrested on suspicion of fulfilling the Southport knife attacks. .

Serena Kennedy told the MPs that she had insisted that on July 29, there was a “fire” with violent disorders on the streets of Britain in view of the badly knife in a teller Swift-themed dance class in the city on 29 July. .

18 -year -old Axle Rudakubana was last monthly jailed for the murder of Elsey Dot Stancomb, Seven, Babe King, Six and Alice Dr. Silva Aguer, Nine.

Public Prosecution Director Stephen Parkinson stressed that there was no national order to reveal more information about Rudkubana.

In view of Southport attacks, there was a lot of speculation about Nifeman and his background on social media.

A The mosque was attacked in Southport After a vigilance in the city of Mercesis to remember the attack victims, eight children and two adults were also injured.

Kennedy told the MPs that, despite spreading violent disorders to other parts of Britain, he was told not to issue information about Rudkubana to journalists.

She said that she wanted to tell the media that Rudkubana was not a Muslim.

Rumors also wrongly claimed that Rudakubana crossed the English channel in a small boat and came to the UK.

In fact, he was born in 2006 with the parents of Rwandan in Cardiff, who was a Christian before the family, eventually moved to Lancashire’s banks, where Rudakubana lived to carry out the attacks.

Responding to Kennedy’s order not to inform the media not to inform the media, Parkinson said: “As far as I know, the issue was not again raised with CPS, and Rudakubana There was never any statement about religion by the Mercyssed police.

“If this issue was raised … I am sure that we were clear that we had no problem with the police issuing this information and eventually this decision was a case for them.”

Kennedy’s account for MPs was focused on 31 July incidents.

By that evening, the prosecutors had said that Rudkubana could be accused of murder and riots were broken in some parts of the country.

The police chief said, “By that time, we clearly were disorders in Southport, and we saw, I think, experience disorder in three other cities,” the police chief said.

“I wanted to try as much as I can give during the press conference … to help my colleagues across the country to deal with some misinformation and disintegration.”

Kennedy said that he suggested the media to tell about the religious background of both the suspect and his parents.

But he said that the Deputy Chief of the CPS area had asked him not to send him off with standard guidance in which the police said very little about a suspect on the eve of the court.

The Chief Constable said, “We had about 90 minutes of discussion which was around the use of desire to put religion in a statement.”

“I would not say my accurate words, but it must have been with lines, ‘I need to help my colleagues, my fellow main constables. Some streets of Britain are on fire, and I need to help them as much as they need As much as possible.

“But real concerns around me were putting religion in my press statement.

“It was very clear within a 90 -minute conversation, that the Crown Prosecution Service was very sad at our suggestion, including that.

“So based on the advice, we did not include the religion of the suspect in our press statement, which I did that evening at midnight.

“I later know that the National CPS had emailed our Mercesis on 23:30 BST to the Com’s Coms team that he was happy for us to include religion.

“But we, until that time, were down and preparing for the press conference so that ourselves were not really seen.

“I was taking my direction from the deputy branch crown prosecutor, which was very clear that I could not include it in my press release, which is why it was not involved.”

Kennedy agreed with the MPs, who asked him if the 90 -minute conversation was “strong”.

He said that “red pen” was taken to his draft statement as he and his local CPS senior prosecutor disagreeed.

“I wanted to give that information because there was disintegration,” he said.

“We saw that hatred of our Muslim communities across the country is under crime.

“Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor was asking me, ‘Why are we going away from what we are saying in general?’

“And that’s when I replied … because it is a unique situation what was working with my colleagues across the country.”

In a separate letter to the MPs, Parkinson said that at a national level, CPS had never told the Mercesis police that it could not disclose the religion of the suspect.

He said: “I understand that during the rapidly growing discussion between Mercestices Police and CPS colleagues at the local level, those colleagues asked for advice, the police expressed a different view that should be known that there should be information that should be known What should be the information that should be released. “

But he said that it was never suggested that it was probably due to his concerns about prejuding any pending criminal tests.

Kennedy told the MPs that he could not say whether violent disorder would have been stopped, more information about Rudkubana was released.

But he warned that the CPS rules, what information gives to the media about the suspects, stating that they were no longer working.

“I don’t think (they take) eat that we are in terms of the influence of social media,” he said.