This fiasco must never be repeated

SOON the Henriques report (about Operation Midland, the failed investigation into the claims of the fantasist “Nick”) will be published in full.

Among the acres of comment that have been written one statement stands out: that of the fully vindicated DCI Paul Settle, below, who said “...we would take the investigation where the evidence led us.

“We were not there with an agenda. We were there to do the job.” Quite.

Unfortunately, not all his colleagues shared