DANNY SHAW

Several years ago I began looking into a disturbing and complex case involving a school-teacher who’d been accused of extremely serious...

1. Vacancy at the Met? Dame Cressida Dick is unlikely to be offered an extension as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, according to a...

Is Priti Patel listening to her Ministers? It’s a serious question because the Under Secretary of State at her department, Chris Philp,...

It took just 90 minutes for the Court of Appeal to slam the door shut on Robyn Williams’s chance of clearing her name. The former...

Graham from Bushey started it. He was the caller whose question on a radio phone-in about the Metropolitan Police Commissioner set...

My reflections on the latest crime figures and statistics on charging rates, first published on the Crest Advisory website,...

Lights, camera, action. It’s time for another photo opportunity with the Home Secretary and frontline police officers. Last week, Priti...

“Calamitous” is not a word that appears often in official reports. But in July 2018 it was the word that an influential Parliamentary...

What an awful year it’s been, a year most of us would rather forget - a year when the cracks in the criminal justice system were brutally...

Step aside Dangerous Dogs Act. It can no longer claim the title of most ill-thought through legislation of recent times. The 1991 Act,...

Here is a Cabinet Minister in command of his brief. His name is Robert Buckland, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor. For almost three...

Now we know why the Government is planning to spend £4 billion on new prisons. It's not, as I suggested in my previous post, because...

So, the Daily Telegraph prediction proved to be correct. In his Spending Review the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has indeed announced 18,000...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to invest billions of pounds in new prisons. That was the gist of a key section of a Daily Telegraph...

In a display of apparent loyalty, Conservative MPs and Ministers have been Tweeting their backing for Priti Patel. “She’s hard working,...

“What about security?” Good question. It came from Yvette Cooper and related to the UK’s attempts to reach a deal with the EU before the...

The text messages became increasingly hostile. First, there was a warning to be “careful”. Then, I was accused of relying on “very...

Covid-19 is a fraudsters' windfall. Since the outbreak criminals have heartlessly exploited people’s health concerns and financial...

I expect there’ll be a few sighs of relief among the senior ranks of Durham Police at the news that Dominic Cummings is stepping down....