It is 50 years since the Confait case of 1972, when a transvestite was murdered and burned alive in a house in my constituency. That led to the bringing forward of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which put in place provisions to ensure that there is an appropriate adult at a police station when children are there. The Metropolitan police has been failing in that area, as have police forces across our country, where appropriate adults have not been in place when children were presented in custody—and on average, children are in custody for 13 hours. Will the Minister agree to look into that as part of the failings of the Met police, and with other police forces across the country?
Metropolitan Police Service
Proceeding contribution from
Janet Daby
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 29 June 2022.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Metropolitan Police Service.
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