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Prosecuting Dominic Cummings

07 July 2020
Issue: 7894 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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A former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the north west has engaged lawyers with a view to bringing a private prosecution against the Prime Minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings

Nazir Afzal believes the police have not gathered all the relevant evidence regarding Cummings’s notorious trip to Durham while infected with COVID-19 and have not investigated at all some of the alleged breaches of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 and related offences.

His lawyers wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill QC, the Chief Constable of Durham and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police last week asking them to investigate further and provide detailed information.

Afzal’s solicitor, Mike Schwarz, partner at Hodge, Jones & Allen, said: ‘It is his simple wish and expectation that current senior police investigators and prosecutors are reminded of their responsibilities and carry out their duties in Mr Cummings’ case. By failing to do so they would perpetuate the public’s perception that there is one rule for those in positions of power and another for ordinary citizens.’

Issue: 7894 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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