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My best guess is that when Inspector (then PC) Katie Eustace attended a disturbance in Nottingham involving criminal damage on 24th May 2020, she had absolutely no idea she would be sat six years later in a live-televised public inquiry, trying to recall and explain in intimate detail the various investigative considerations, lines of enquiry […]

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The public inquiry in to the attacks in June 2023 in Nottingham begins today in London.  This is the first public inquiry in to mental health homicides in the United Kingdom, to the best of Julian Hendy’s knowledge. It will examine the attacks on – Wayne Birkett Ian Coates Marcin Gawronski Grace O’Malley-Kumar Sharon Miller […]

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I wrote this post at the end of last year but it became more relevant recently when the Home Secretary published a White Paper on police reform and decided to use the phrase “core” an awful lot of times!  What is the “core business” or the “core role” of policing? – “Everything which follows in […]

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Alexander Lewis-Ranwell (ALR) killed three elderly men in Exeter in February 2019. He was arrested the following day for another assault, thankfully non-fatal, and subsequently linked to the killings. Following that assault the day after, he was “sectioned” under the Mental Health Act 1983 and once the link was made, he was arrested from the […]

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In November 2024, a jury in a Bedfordshire inquest concluded that Andrew McCleary was unlawfully killed during restraint by police officers and paramedics in Luton Bedfordshire Police, unhappy with the conclusion, sought permission from the High Court for judicial review and in November 2025, that application was rejected and the Bedfordshire Senior Coroner, Emma Whiting, […]

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