Clueless Policing Minister Sarah Jones completely falls apart under Nick Ferrari’s questioning 🤦♂️
In a painful LBC interview, Sarah Jones was asked a straightforward question about the Hampshire officers who handcuffed dying 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he bled out from multiple stab wounds, after wrongly treating the stabbed student as the aggressor.
Nick Ferrari: “It’s reported the officers involved won’t be referred for misconduct. Why is that?”
Jones immediately stammers and hides behind the IOPC investigation.
Ferrari presses: “As of now they haven’t been referred for misconduct? Are they still serving on frontline duties?”
Again, nothing. Just more IOPC deflection.
Ferrari: “Why can’t you tell me whether they’re still on the frontline? Don’t the people of Southampton have a right to know?”
Jones keeps parroting the same line about the IOPC “looking at footage, talking to officers, talking to the family…”
Ferrari, clearly fed up: “Minister, I asked whether they’re still serving frontline duties. Do you know whether they are or not?”
Jones starts the IOPC script again. Ferrari cuts her off:
“But do you know whether they’re still on the frontline, Minister?!”
Flustered and stuttering, she mumbles something about speaking to the chief constable.
Ferrari: “Have you asked the chief constable? It’s causing concern. You don’t know, do you?”
Then comes the most ridiculous line of all: Jones admits she does know the answer… but she won’t tell the public because “an investigation is ongoing.”
What the actual f*ck?
This has nothing to do with prejudicing an investigation. It’s a basic yes or no: Are these officers still out on the streets policing the public right now? The people of Hampshire and Southampton deserve to know.
This is what we get from this government, a Policing Minister who either doesn’t know what’s happening in her own brief or is too scared to say it. Pathetic.