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Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2025

Debate

Southport Attack

Contribution

My Lords, on the Statement’s points on contempt of court, will the Minister comment on the CPS’s refusal to release full background details about Rudakubana, even after his guilty plea? This led the Crime Reporters Association to note “a worrying pattern whereby forces wanting to provide information to the press have been instructed to stay silent”. I raise this because I want to know what the Minister thinks about the information vacuum that followed the incident. Yes, some bad-faith players stirred the pot, but most of the people who were speculating and asking questions about, say, terrorism were parents who were just sickened by the carnage of those little girls, and I think felt resentful, frankly, at being called out as either far-right or somehow the problem themselves. Can we have more openness and information, not less?

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