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  • 4 months ago
Disinformation could still spread under suspect ethnicity guidance, Dame Diana Johnson
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00:00This interim guidance will set out that on charge, usually name and addresses are given.
00:06We also, in most cases, will want to see nationality or ethnicity given as well.
00:13This goes back, as you rightly say, to last year and what happened, that appalling atrocity in Southport.
00:20And one of the things the government did at that point was to ask the Law Commission
00:23about what further information could be disclosed without prejudicing a trial.
00:29Because, obviously, we want to make sure that if a person is charged and then goes to court and is convicted,
00:36that that brings justice for the victim.
00:38So we don't want to do anything that could in any way prejudice that trial.
00:42And that's why we asked the Law Commission to look at that, as well as the College of Policing,
00:47to give this advice to police forces about the disclosure of information.
00:52But we welcome what's happened with this interim guidance today.
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