Senin, 04 Oktober 2021
Motorists and paramedic crew drag away Insulate Britain protesters on Wandsworth Bridge - Guardian News
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Killer cop Wayne Couzens will keep at least a third of his police pension due to 'human rights' - Daily Mail
Rishi Sunak says there is a 'problem' with public trust in police over Sarah Everard scandal as it emerges her killer Wayne Couzens will keep up to a third of his force pension
- Wayne Couzens, 48, was sentenced to a rare whole life sentence for his crimes
- He staged a fake arrest to kidnap, rape and murder Sarah Everard, 33, in March
- But the appalling killer will still get over a third of his police pension
- It is down to an established ruling by the European Court of Human rights
Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted today there was a problem with public trust in the police following the appalling crimes of killer cop Wayne Couzens.
Mr Sunak, 41, said people had been left worried about the force after harrowing details emerged of how Couzens kidnapped, raped and killed Sarah Everard.
He stressed he still believed in the policy at the interview at the start of Conservative Party conference today.
He said in an interview with LBC: 'I think we all, obviously, should be able to trust the police – and the fact you're having to ask this question tells me there's a problem.'
'I think it starts, probably, with an acknowledgement from men in particular about the scale of the challenge here and making sure we are aware of it and recognise what an issue it is… and continue to make efforts to improve the situation.
'Wayne Couzens was roaming around very close to where my old home in London was. My wife was telling me about that… and that brought that home for me.
'We just need to do a better job – particularly as male politicians – of recognising that.'
'What I would really urge the public… I want to make it clear I do believe in the police. I do think we can trust the police and I think the police do a wonderful, wonderful job.'
His thoughts came as it emerged Couzens would not lose his entire Met pension for murdering Miss Everard because it would infringe his human rights, it was revealed today.
Couzens, who was jailed for life with no parole for the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah, 33, will keep a third of his monthly retirement allowance.
Rishi Sunak said there was a problem with public trust in the police after Couzens' crimes
Couzens, smirking here in uniform, was jailed for life with no parole for killing Sarah Everard
The beast, 48, abducted her before raping and murdering her before burning her body
Home Office guidelines state that no more than 65 per cent of a pension can be forfeited - in Couzens' case this percentage relates to the amount paid by the taxpayer via the police.
But he will keep his own contributions, roughly the remaining 35 per cent, and to take that away would be a 'clear infringement of the officer's rights' under the European Convention on Human Rights, judges have ruled previously.
Police forces across the country are facing calls to re-vet all officers after the string of blunders that allowed Wayne Couzens to abuse his role in the murder of Sarah Everard.
A former Met Police chief superintendent yesterday warned that other people with 'questionable backgrounds' may have slipped through flawed vetting procedures.
Claims emerged at the weekend that married Couzens had taken an escort to a colleague's wedding anniversary party at the Hilton hotel in Maidstone, Kent, where he joked about paying for sex.
The former firearms officer was once nicknamed 'the rapist' by colleagues. At his Old Bailey trial it was revealed that Couzens was 'attracted to brutal sexual pornography' as far back as 2002.
Parm Sandhu, a former Met chief superintendent who worked for the force for almost three decades, said Scotland Yard had fostered a culture where Couzens 'was allowed to flourish'.
Miss Sandhu told Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday: 'Everybody who works in policing now should be re-vetted. Those people who got through the vetting procedure 20 years ago, 30 years ago, all of them.'
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has come under fire over Couzens' crimes
Marketing executive Sarah Everard, 33, was snatched off the street in Clapham on March 3
Miss Everard's family released this picture of her after Couzens was jailed for killing her
She also said that a WhatsApp group in which the murderer and colleagues from three forces allegedly shared offensive messages was a sign of the attitudes that can be damaging to women.
Last week it emerged that two Met officers are still on duty after swapping highly offensive messages with Couzens, who was given a whole life term for the murder of Miss Everard.
Lord Stevens, who served as Met Commissioner between 2000 and 2005, has described the force's vetting procedures as 'not fit for purpose'. But Boris Johnson yesterday rejected calls for a public inquiry amid mounting pressure on Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to explain how the force failed to address the killer's past.
Following a wave of criticism over the force's handling of the scandal, the Prime Minister asked women to have confidence in police officers who he said were 'overwhelmingly trustworthy'.
He said an internal inquiry by Scotland Yard and separate probes by the Independent Office for Police Conduct were sufficient.
Mr Johnson told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: 'My view is that the police do – overwhelmingly – a wonderful job and what I want is the public, and women in particular, girls and young women, women of all ages, to trust the police.'
But Priti Patel will be 'watching very closely' to ensure Dame Cressida improves police vetting, a minister warned last night. Solicitor general Alex Chalk said: 'A lot of people will have real concerns about how Wayne Couzens slipped through the net and they'll want to be absolutely satisfied if things are about to improve.'
He told a fringe event at the Tory conference it was 'absolutely right' that the Metropolitan Police needed to improve on vetting.
However Donna Jones, the Hampshire police and crime commissioner, said that re-vetting tens of thousands of officers was 'not a sensible use of public money'.
She told LBC: 'We need to make sure we have got the right processes in place so that when issues are reported the police forces are acting quickly.'
Couzens kidnapped Miss Everard after using his police warrant card to stage a 'false arrest' on March 3, handcuffing her and claiming she was breaking Covid rules.
Met Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave has admitted that vetting procedures were not followed properly when Couzens joined the force in 2018.
But he said that Couzens would still have been accepted if his links to an indecent exposure incident in 2015 were known, because Kent Police failed to identify him as being responsible.
Couzens's vehicle was reported to the force, where he was serving as a special constable, after a male motorist was seen driving around naked from the waist down.
But it was decided the incident did not warrant any further action and the driver was not identified.
Couzens' name was also raised in a sex offence days before Miss Everard's death, after two female staff at a McDonald's in Swanley, Kent, said they were flashed by a driver on February 7 and 27.
CCTV evidence showing Couzens's number plate had actually brought up his name as a suspect on the Met's systems.
But officers failed to flag up that he was a serving officer and further inquiries were not made until after Miss Everard's disappearance.
Ian Blair, who succeeded Lord Stevens as head of Scotland Yard, said 'an absolutely forensic' investigation similar to the Stephen Lawrence inquiry led by Lord Macpherson was needed.
He called for 'an independent inquiry to try to discover what are the processes that allowed this man – who's obviously a manipulative, homicidal maniac – to become a police officer'.
Patsy Stevenson, an activist who was arrested at a vigil for Miss Everard in March, said the Met had failed to address 'systemic issues within their force'.
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2021-10-04 08:11:52Z
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Insulate Britain: Driver en route to sick mother pleads with protesters blocking major London routes - The Telegraph
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2021-10-04 11:23:14Z
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Minggu, 03 Oktober 2021
Conservative conference: Rishi Sunak to extend job support schemes - BBC News
The chancellor will commit £500m to renew job support programmes during his speech at the Conservative Party conference on Monday.
Rishi Sunak will promise to "double down" on help for the jobs market after Covid, as he extends several schemes set up during the pandemic.
He will also promise to reshape the economy around technology and scientific innovation.
The speech comes amid pressure on the government over living standards.
Rising food and energy prices, alongside cuts to universal credit benefits, have sparked warnings of a squeeze on incomes this autumn.
The military is also due to begin driving fuel to petrol stations on Monday, amid continuing supply chain issues affecting several sectors.
Ahead of his first in-person conference address to Tory members as chancellor, Mr Sunak praised the UK's economic recovery but warned the "job is not done yet".
"At the start of this crisis I made a promise to do whatever it takes, and I'm ready to double down on that promise now as we come out of this crisis," he said.
He will also promise to make the UK the "the most exciting place on the planet" through better infrastructure and improved skills.
His speech will come on the second day of conference, known as Business Day, when the party seeks to showcase its commercial credentials and boost ties with industry.
Rishi Sunak turned up here not exactly in the traditional uniform of a chancellor of the exchequer.
He was wearing a hoodie.
Before long, he'd found his suit, and his fans, asking for selfies.
Plenty of Conservatives think he might be prime minister one day.
Mr Sunak has only been chancellor for a little over 18 months.
But what an 18 months it's been.
Appointed just weeks before the first Covid lockdown, he was almost immediately signing off an unprecedented splurge of public spending.
This, Mr Sunak has long argued, was a necessary and pragmatic response to a crisis.
But expect him later to emphasise his Conservative credentials; a desire to cut taxes and be cautious about spending taxpayers' money.
And yet Corporation Tax and National Insurance are going up on his watch.
And all this as energy bills go up for many, there are bottlenecks getting supplies to shops and plenty of us have had to queue for petrol.
This year's event comes amid a backdrop of supply chain problems and a continuing stand-off between ministers and the haulage sector over foreign drivers.
The industry has called for additional temporary visas to plug an estimated 100,000 shortfall in HGV drivers due to Covid, Brexit and other factors.
But although ministers say they will grant 5,000 temporary visas, they have so far resisted calls to increase this, saying that immigration has previously pushed down pay and conditions.
On Sunday, Boris Johnson said the UK was in a necessary "period of adjustment" following Brexit, adding that immigration from the EU had reduced business investment in staff and equipment.
And asked by Andrew Marr if he would raise taxes again, Mr Johnson refused to rule it out, saying: "If I can possibly avoid it, I do not want to raise taxes again."
In his conference speech, Mr Sunak will say the Kickstart Scheme - which subsidises eligible jobs for young people on universal credit - will be extended by three months to March 2022.
The scheme, launched in September last year, was allocated £2bn in funding to create 250,000 jobs by the end of 2021.
However, only 76,900 have actually started Kickstart roles, according to latest figures, with 196,300 roles in total made available for youngsters to apply for.
The Federation of Small Businesses had been calling for the scheme to be extended, amid reports that firms had encountered delays and found the scheme slow.
Scheme extensions
Mr Sunak will also announce the extension of the JETS scheme to help long-term unemployed people on universal credit until September 2022.
A separate scheme paying employers £3,000 per apprentice they take on will also be prolonged by four months until the end of January.
And the government is promising more help finding work for those coming off the furlough scheme, which closed last week, having paid the wages of 11.6 million workers during the pandemic.
The various extensions will be paid for with £500m of funding, with the Treasury saying that details will be confirmed at the Spending Review on 27 October.
Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the government's plan to support jobs was "struggling" and had "failed to hit its original targets".
"An extended deadline will do nothing to compensate for the chancellor's tax rises, cost of living crisis and cuts to universal credit," he added.
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2021-10-04 00:17:04Z
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Conservative conference: Thousands protest in Manchester - BBC News
Thousands of protesters have marched through Manchester on the first day of the Conservative Party conference.
They were calling for various reforms, including to social care and policing.
About 10,000 delegates are expected in the city for the Tories' first in-person conference since the pandemic and their 2019 election victory.
The prime minister has said he wants to "build back better - with decisive action on more jobs, more police and supporting health and social care".
Among the protesters were a group of care workers who had marched more than 30 miles from Burnley to call for better pay and conditions.
Joni Hillary, who said she also worked in a pub because the pay was better, said: "Carers are some of the most underpaid workers in the country and, for the job we do, it's not enough pay - we look after some of the most vulnerable people.
"If your mum and dad are getting looked after, do you really want someone who's half-hearted because they don't feel appreciated… or do you want someone that feels good about doing the job?"
Brett Marsden, one of the carers at the march, said they were also raising money for local food banks after some had to use their services, especially when isolating from relatives so they could work in lockdown.
"There were numerous sacrifices made… if social care crumbles, it falls on the NHS and nobody wants that," he said.
The care system, which has been hit by staff shortages and falling government spending, is under pressure because of an ageing population and the pandemic.
This has put pressure on the NHS as people cannot be discharged from hospital if they do not have anywhere suitable to go.
Last month, the government announced an extra tax to fund social care in England. However, there are concerns that the increase will have a greater impact on the lower-paid.
Protesters were also calling for policing reforms as wide-ranging amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill make their way through Parliament.
The proposed law includes an offence of "intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance", designed to stop people occupying public spaces, blocking motorways or employing other tactics to make themselves both seen and heard.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said the government would not "tolerate guerrilla tactics that obstruct people going about their day-to-day business".
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Fuel supply crisis 'virtually at an end' in parts of UK - but problems persist in South East - Sky News
The fuel supply crisis is "virtually at an end" in parts of the UK, but problems persist in London and the South East, the Petrol Retailers Association has said.
There has been no overall improvement in the crisis in the last 24 hours, the group added.
However, issues with getting fuel were "virtually at an end" in Scotland, the North and the Midlands, where only 6% of filling stations are empty.
In London and the South East, 22% of filling stations were dry, and 60% had both grades of fuel available.
Overall, 17% of petrol stations remain empty in the UK, while 67% have both grades of fuel available, the group said.
Live updates from the Conservative Party conference
From 4 October, army tanker drivers are to start delivering fuel to petrol stations in an emergency move prompted by the continuing crisis at the pumps.
Almost 200 soldiers - including 100 drivers - have been training with haulage firms this week, learning how to fill up tankers and petrol pumps, and the first army deliveries will be made early on Monday morning.
Announcing the move, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: "While the situation is stabilising, our armed forces are there to fill in any critical vacancies and help keep the country on the move by supporting the industry to deliver fuel to forecourts."
Brian Madderson, PRA chairman, said: "The fuel is still not going to the pumps that need it most in London and the South East.
"There is a plentiful supply at filling stations in the North (and little queuing) but we now need the government to work with the downstream fuel industry on 'levelling up' London and the South East, where the fuel is most needed right now."
Mr Madderson added that the PRA is "disappointed that no concerted action is being taken" to address the supply problems in London and the South East.
"It is hard to see what benefits there have been from the suspension of competition law. Our members report that they are missing out on supplies, having not been able to see where deliveries are going," he added.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out a further relaxation of immigration rules to help ease the supply shortages - but he also insisted that he does not want to see a return to "a lot of low-wage immigration".
Amid the continuing queues at petrol stations across the country, the government has said 300 fuel tanker drivers will be able to come to the UK from overseas "immediately" under a bespoke temporary visa which will last until March.
Some 4,700 other visas intended for foreign food haulage drivers will be extended beyond the initially announced three months and will last from late October to the end of February.
There have also been calls for the visa programme to be extended to HGV drivers in all sectors of the retail industry.
Asked on Saturday whether he would rule out further relaxations to immigration rules, Mr Johnson said the possibility of more visas would be kept "under review".
"What we have now is a system that allows us to control immigration," he said.
"That gives us flexibility - we can open up our markets if we need to. And, of course, we'll keep everything under review."
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Earlier on Sunday, the Conservative Party co-chairman said the government is taking steps to address the supply chain issues.
He said: "The government is working tirelessly to resolve this situation, from tomorrow those 200 military personnel will be deployed to help drive tankers to ensure we overcome this issue."
Mr Dowden reiterated that the issue is not due to a lack of petrol, but with getting the fuel to petrol stations and added that there are issues with supply chains in Britain, but insisted this is not unique to Britain.
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Retired Met detective 'told Cressida Dick about ''sexist'' WhatsApp messages sent by male officers' - Daily Mail
Retired female Met detective claims she told Cressida Dick about 'vulgar and sexist' WhatsApp messages sent by male officers - but got no response
- Met detective warned Cressida Dick about 'vulgar and sexist' WhatsApp group
- Paige Kimberley claimed offer of new job was withdrawn after alarm was raised
- An internal investigation in 2019 took no action against the male officers
- WhatsApp group similar to that used by Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens
A retired Metropolitan Police detective has accused Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick of ignoring her warnings about a 'vulgar and sexist' WhatsApp group similar to that used by Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens.
Ex-Detective Superintendent Paige Kimberley claimed she wrote to Dame Cressida shortly after the murder of Miss Everard urging a review of 'how inappropriate behaviour is addressed amongst contract workers'.
An internal investigation in 2019 took no action against the male officers, saying the messages were 'distasteful' but did not amount to criminality or misconduct.
Now Ms Kimberley is set to be compensated after a tribunal ruled a job offer was suddenly withdrawn from her a day after she told her civilian line manager Tatiana Southon about the images.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman told MailOnline: 'We are currently assessing the details of the tribunal's finding. We cannot comment further at this time.'
Ex-Detective Superintendent Paige Kimberley had an offer of a new job withdrawn after alerting her manager to offensive messages she had seen shared via the messaging app by Met Police officers
A decorated Metropolitan Police detective has accused Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick of ignoring her warnings about a 'vulgar and sexist' WhatsApp group similar to that used by Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens
Last night it was reported that Couzens brought a prostitute to a police party at a hotel, while another sex worker turned up at the station he was based in, demanding money
Ms Southon claimed that the 59-year-old ex-detective did not tell her about the images - but the panel ruled that was 'implausible' and said she had been told and then withdrew the job offer without explanation.
The tribunal said: 'We agree with this and we do not condone these messages in any way at all. They are sexualised, derogatory towards women, offensive and completely inappropriate for a workplace. They reflect badly on all those participating in those messages.'
It added: 'We have considered whether in telling Ms Southon that there was sexually explicit messages in the WhatsApp group which were derogatory towards women and very offensive, the claimant did a protected act? We find that it was a protected act.'
Ms Kimberley was commended seven times during her 32-year-long career with the Metropolitan Police force.
An employment tribunal in London heard she retired in 2013 but four years later she was approached to rejoin the Met as part of its Digital Policing strategy.
She was offered the role as one of its Implementation Managers and the team consisted of retired male senior officers, a serving constable and a civilian IT specialist.
Ms Kimberley said a WhatsApp group was created by the team members so 'we could keep in touch and assist each other with any problems that arose', she said - adding that the name of the group was 'Old Timers plus Dave'.
She said as time went on posts in the group evolved into light hearted conversations between colleagues.
After Ms Kimberley, of Dawlish, Devon, left the role she remained on the WhatsApp group.
'As soon as I left, I noticed that the language and images being shared within the group began to become graphic, sexual and derogatory towards women,' she told the tribunal.
She claims her male colleagues were aware she was still in the group but 'they continued to publish statements, images and videos which were negative towards or about women' - up to 20 messages a day.
In her statement to the tribunal, Ms Kimberley said: 'I was shocked and disappointed by the content of these messages.
'Yet despite their respective responsibilities, and on whose behalf they were working, and being paid reasonably high amounts by the taxpayer, they were still circulating aggressive and inappropriate messages, photographs and videos in a work WhatsApp group including a graphic image of a diseased vagina, messages calling women s**gs and disclosing very misogynistic and sexist attitudes towards women.'
She claimed the Met has shown 'no willingness to move with the society it purports to serve or feels that it can be held accountable.'
Ms Kimberley told the tribunal that when she was asked to return in September 2019 she did not feel she could until the content of the WhatsApp group had been addressed, and claimed the conduct by the contractors had created a 'hostile and offensive environment to me'.
After the case, her lawyer Terry Falcao said: 'This was an important case for Paige as she acted on good faith and with the best motivation to disclose misogynistic and unacceptable sexual conduct from contractors working with a police officer and Met Police staff. This was a protected act.
'The tribunal accepted her version of events, that she disclosed this conduct to a senior manager in the digital policing unit. This resulted in the withdrawal of an offer to earn a significant sum of money.
Undated family handout photo of Sarah Everard issued by the Crown Prosecution Service
'It was concerning there was no proper investigation, that the same workers continued without sanction and the only person who suffered both financially and emotionally was the person who reported the activities.
'The Met Police Service has sadly shown that actually not much has changed and improved, despite Press releases and pronouncements about their regard for women and equality.'
Ms Kimberley said she wrote to Cressida Dick in March this year about the 'vulgar and sexist comments that were circulating on the WhatsApp group that one of the contractors (an ex senior officer) has put in place...'
But she said: 'I sent it recorded delivery. I never got a reply. I also wrote to the Home Secretary Priti Patel but did not get a response. It has cost them an awful lot of money to defend this case and they tried to discredit me.
'Things got worse. There was racial profiling with a greater expanse of offensive material. But no investigation has ever been done to look at the phones of the people in this group which is really disturbing. This was serious misogyny not a bit of banter.
'I was proud to part of that organisation, I was 18 when I joined up. But retired male colleagues of mine are saying this is like the bad old days of the 70s and 80s.'
A remedy hearing fixing compensation is due to be held later.
Last night it was reported that Couzens brought a prostitute to a police party at a hotel, while another sex worker turned up at the station he was based in, demanding money.
Couzens took a prostitute with him to a colleague's tenth wedding anniversary party at the Hilton Hotel in Maidstone, Kent.
A source who was at the party told The Sun: 'He was quite open about her being an escort. He said, 'My wife can't make it so I've brought this brass with me.' '
In another incident, a prostitute reportedly turned up at Couzens' station when he was working in Bromley, South London, and demanded to speak to him because he owed her money. The Eastern European woman refused to leave until she saw Couzens, and he had to be called back from patrol.
The report said he took her to a cashpoint and paid her money, later admitting to colleagues that she was a prostitute.
Embattled Met Commissioner Cressida Dick faced fresh calls to resign over the scandal amid growing demands for a full independent public inquiry. A new YouGov poll found that 38 per cent of people believed Dick should resign, compared with 27 per cent who thought she should stay and 35 per cent who were unsure.
A former senior Met Police officer has called for all police officers to be re-vetted following shocking disclosures about Couzens, who was handed a whole-life sentence last week.
Parm Sandhu, an ex-chief superintendent, told Sky News's Trevor Phillips on Sunday urgent action was needed to restore public confidence in the police.
'Everybody who works in policing now should be re-vetted. Those people who got through the vetting procedure 20 years ago, 30 years ago, all of them,' she said. 'Every single person needs to be reviewed and if anything comes up in their past - it doesn't have to be a conviction, it just needs to be come to notice, because this man did come to notice.
'It needs to be done now as an urgent measure to reassure the public and rebuild the trust and confidence that policing has lost, but it needs to be done on a regular basis so that we don't have anybody that even comes close to the actions of Wayne Couzens.'
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