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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
Lastly, I am concerned that the police’s habit of record-keeping in NCHI circumstances might continue even if we do not know about it, behind the backs of scrutiny and accountability. In September last year, Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy at Sex Matters, after putting in a subject access request, discovered that she had been added to a police national database as being guilty of a crime without ever being charged, tried, convicted or even told. In her Substack, she detailed finding out that she had been considered in need of a non-crime hate incident related to tweets and statements referring to a trans-identifying individual, who calls themselves Freda Wallace, as a fetishistic, trans-identifying man, which it was claimed was factually accurate.
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