Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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A 14-page Met document lists dozens of 'inappropriate terms' officers must avoid in reports sent to senior officers and CPS lawyers, and legal experts warn it tells police to abandon neutrality in records that later reach a courtroom.
6 September 2026
Police trawling and other tactics
Harvey Proctor on Operation Midland: the guilty men who wrecked innocent lives were never held to account.
4 March 2025
Head of college of policing said force had ‘overreacted’ to criticism of the handling of historic sexual abuse
15 October 2022
The former Justice Secretary says the move would prevent innocent people from having their lives ‘trampled over’
29 May 2022
The pair, known as A and B, told 'deliberate lies' about a VIP Westminster paedophile ring in 2015, prolonging investigations. The Metropolitan Police ignored advice to investigate the serial liars.
1 May 2020