This! Who was the cop sitting there checking that reported stolen phones didn't ring? I've had goods nicked from my flat and told the police who did it and they wouldn't even knock on the door in question.
I was mugged for my phone in 2004. The police came to take a statement from my house in person. I was away for work the next night so to provide reassurance to my girlfriend who’d be home alone, they promised to visit our street again the next night, even though the crime had happened elsewhere.
Resigned, nearly said ..that took long enough, but then compared it to the last lot, who would have just trotted out the line 'we are waiting for Sue Gray... and I have the full backing of the Prime Minister, so no I won't be resigning' 🙄
Guardian suggests phones were mislaid more than once.
So if discovered ‘after a while’ it must have been deliberately recharged.
Hoist with her own petard, maybe, & not necessarily the youngest Cabinet member.
Pedestal drop.
Oh I wouldn't go that far. They weren't trying to find the phones (hard), but they were all over a self reported insurance claim error (much easier crime stat!)
@drjennings.bsky.social Joking aside, if the account Ms. Haigh now gives of the events is true, then she was not, in fact, guilty of the offence to which she pleaded guilty. Perhaps whoever was DPP at the time should be facing some searching questions about an innocent person being browbeaten […]
"I'm resigning because the right-wing press wiil have a fold day over this". Right-wing press not only has a field day over it but has a field day over the fact that she resigned, even asking whether Starmer should have backed her instead. Having a field day no matter what happens.
I would say is in the public interest to prosecute false reporting in these circumstances - it is within the realms of theft employee (on the circumstances presented)
Isn't it the case that it was her employer who investigated it, and when it transpired that a "stolen" work phone had been used to call numbers previously called from that same phone, *they* passed the information on to the police as suspicious?
I'd guess the Venn diagram capturing of those happy with her resigning and those who are (rightly) angered by the inability of the police to prosecute criminals but massively effective at prosecuting victims of crime, is entirely predictable.
I got mugged years ago and reported it to the police who then asked me to go in 'for a chat', which after an hour it transpired they thought I was trying to commit insurance fraud because I wouldn't drive around at 1am looking for the mugger
Years ago my flat was broken into just before Xmas. Among stolen items was a camera wrapped ready to give my bf. I was able to give full details from receipt. Following week I got a visit from police 'about the phone'. It was already listed as a stolen item! I thought they'd found it! Silly me.
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The police weren’t interested in the mugging.
So if discovered ‘after a while’ it must have been deliberately recharged.
Hoist with her own petard, maybe, & not necessarily the youngest Cabinet member.
Pedestal drop.
FFS