Westminster sexual harassment scandal

[farfromthesun]

I want to see pics of the cops actually finding and viewing the alleged pron, which may or may not have been 'illegal', 'extreme', 'legal then but illegal a few days later'.

That's a relief. I thought you were looking for something depicting Green in an uncompromising, er, position.

 

[Tony L]

Some background reading here (Guardian). I don’t understand why it has taken so long to bubble to the surface, but the link implies three police officers including a commissioner are on side with the discovery evidence so it looks pretty serious, i.e. more than a lone voice making the accusations. But why now, not then? If it is what it appears to be one has to assume there was a deliberate cover-up!

PS Given the nature of the initial enquiry, which I’ve refreshed my memory about (Home Office leaks) one would hope/expect proper forensic IT techniques were used, i.e. rather more than a copper having a quick peep and then leaving after writing up in a notebook. I’d have expected HDs to have been fully imaged, router logs taken etc etc.

 

[Cav]

Where is this computer now? Where is the evidence without it?

 

[Guest432]

From what I read I think they were told to dispose of it as there was nothing to investigate.

I would have assumed that any evidence collected should have been recorded and logged in the PNC even if the computer was subsequently returned (it would have been destroyed by now as per usual govt disposal)

 

[Joe Hutch]

From what I read I think they were told to dispose of it as there was nothing to investigate.

I would have assumed that any evidence collected should have been recorded and logged in the PNC even if the computer was subsequently returned (it would have been destroyed by now as per usual govt disposal)

Why, if the material wasn't illegal? Do the police routinely retain all the evidence they collect?

 

[Guest432]

I don't see why not, I would have thought they would have kept something in case they were challenged over their processes or what they did.

Police used to have to keep or submit their notebooks once full for archival as they are classed as evidence so why wouldn't they keep investigation notes.

 

[merlin]

What? Now you can't look at porn at work?

What's the world coming to?

 

[Guest432]

You can as long as you don't get caught.

 

[glancaster]

I’ve actually forgotten what the room search was about in the first place! What suspected behaviour were they investigating?

The context of the original search was that, under the Labour government, Green had received leaks from a Home Office source, which he used to embarrass the government over their immigration policy. There was some suggestion that the leaking was criminal and that Green, by aiding this, had also committed an offence. As well as having his home and office searched and computer taken, Green was arrested and briefly detained. In the end no charges were brought, after Keir Starmer, at that time the Director of Public Prosecutions, concluded it unlikely that a prosecution would succeed, as the main negative effect of the leaks was merely political embarrassment and there was a public interest angle. A separate enquiry concluded that Green's arrest was 'not proportionate'.

One of the police involved, then and now, is Bob Quick. Some months after Green's arrest, Quick inadvertently revealed secret information about a police investigation, which compromised it, and resigned soon afterwards. He claimed he would not have had to resign were it not for the earlier controversy. His career prior to these events had been exemplary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Quick_(police_officer)