Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

David Winnick Excerpts
Monday 5th December 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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That is very reassuring.

David Winnick Portrait Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab)
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A person has been convicted and will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of four young men. Is the Home Secretary aware of that murder, and is she aware that if the police in London had acted differently, two of those lives might well have been saved? It is unfortunate, to say the least, that the Met, when investigating murder, seems on occasions to model itself on Inspector Clouseau.

Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis
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I shall be happy to look into the specifics of the case but, as the hon. Gentleman will appreciate, I cannot comment on them here. Obviously the Metropolitan police are out there every day investigating and preventing crime for the benefit of London.