Met police urged to investigate Dominic Cummings’s Durham trip

Former chief prosecutor fears ‘prosecutors have not received all relevant information’ about the No. 10 adviser’s journey

Dominic Cummings
Dominic Cummings addresses press in the Downing Street rose garden
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The former chief prosecutor for northwest England is urging police in London and Durham and the Crown Prosecution Service to launch new investigations into alleged lockdown breaches by Dominic Cummings.

Lawyers for Nazir Afzal have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick demanding a probe into whether Boris Johnson’s chief adviser broke the law when he drove 260 miles from London to Durham at the height of the coronavirus outbreak, The Guardian says.

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