COPS TOLD TO PROBE DOM’S BREACH AGAIN
Lawyer plea on ‘missed information’
DURHAM Police have been urged to reopen their investigation into whether Dominic Cummings breached lockdown laws.
The Metropolitan Police have also been asked to probe claims Boris Johnson’s top aide flouted regulations by leaving his home to travel to the North East “without reasonable excuse” while members of his family showed symptoms.
Lawyers for the former North
West regional prosecutor Nazir Afzal, whose brother died of Covid-19, have written to both forces. They have also sent a letter to the Crown Prosecution Service asking it to play a “proactive role”.
Mr Afzal, who has threatened to bring a private prosecution on behalf of the public, said: “I am concerned that the police and prosecutors have not received all relevant information and that their decision making will be incomplete as a result.
“I am troubled correspondence from people including MPs has gone unanswered. Public confidence is damaged as a consequence.” The PM has stood by Mr Cummings. But in a letter to Durham Police, Mr Afzal’s lawyers said “not all relevant evidence” was gathered – believed to be in relation to Mr Cummings isolating at his parents’ home near Durham, a family day-trip to Barnard Castle when he said he was “testing his eyes” and an alleged second visit to the North East on April 19.
The lawyers also urged the Met to investigate his actions in London but a Met spokesman said it “is not investigating Covid guidancerelated issues retrospectively”.
Mr Cummings denies any wrongdoing. No 10 declined to comment.