The Duchess of Cambridge did not break the law by attending the vigil for Sarah Everard because ‘she was working’, Dame Cressida Dick said today, as she slammed politicians including Sadiq Khan who criticised her officers for arresting protesters. The Met Commissioner also revealed that she knew in advance that Kate was heading to Clapham Common to lay … Read more
Cressida Dick is ‘unlikely’ to be given another term as Met chief amid continued anger at the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil – with Priti Patel and Sadiq Khan among critics Priti Patel is not expected to extend contract at Scotland Yard when it expires Britain’s most senior officer has been put on notice … Read more
The family of Jean Charles De Menezes has called for Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick to resign over her officers’ use of ‘excessive force’ at Sarah Everard‘s vigil. Vivian Meneses Figueiredo said she was appalled at the sight of officers arresting women at a candlelit vigil in memory of the 33-year-old marketing executive. Miss Figueiredo’s … Read more
The family of Jean Charles De Menezes has called for Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick to resign over her officers’ use of ‘excessive force’ at Sarah Everard‘s vigil. Vivian Meneses Figueiredo said she was appalled at the sight of officers arresting women at a candlelit vigil in memory of the 33-year-old marketing executive. Miss Figueiredo’s … Read more
Calls for Cressida Dick to resign have been growing after police manhandled screaming women in extraordinary clashes with demonstrators at a vigil to mourn the death of Sarah Everard. A crowd of around 1,500 people gathered at Clapham Common in south London to remember the 33-year-old marketing executive, but scuffles broke out as police surrounded a … Read more
Britain’s most senior police officer said it is ‘preposterous’ that people could be unaware of the need to follow the third national lockdown and warned that rule-breakers will be fined. Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick said people are still holding house parties, meeting in basements to gamble, and attending unlicensed raves despite rising numbers … Read more
My lockdown wedding was a 30-person, socially distanced, sanitised church service organised in under two weeks. Restrictions meant no hymns, no wind instruments and no speaking too loudly. A disappointment for a musical family. Not what we’d envisaged, but a more intimate and special day than we could ever have imagined. Imperfect yet perfect — … Read more
Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force could launch a criminal investigation into BBC journalist Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana. Ms Dick said the force has not yet received a complaint from anyone with any evidence for officers to examine. But if such a complaint was to emerge, Scotland Yard would ‘assess whether … Read more
Britain’s most senior police officer today said she has ‘no interest in interrupting family Christmas dinners’ to catch coronavirus rule-breakers as Matt Hancock suggested people will still be banned from hugging their relatives. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said ‘the police have lots of other things to be doing’ and she will not be … Read more
Actress Cressida Bonas has been seen for the first time since getting married in a private countryside wedding. The 31-year-old, who dated the Duke of Sussex, 35, for three years until 2014, was spotted taking a stroll through the streets of London wearing her new wedding band after a low key wedding during lockdown. She tied … Read more