It was always entirely necessary and appropriate for Craig Guildford to resign as Chief Constable of West Midlands Police following the Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle.  But this thing stopped being about football weeks ago – it became about his honesty,  and integrity as well as the operational competence of his police service and it was […]

I want to outline a truly interesting case not long ago determined in the Criminal Court of Appeal, Jenkins v R (2025) EWCA Crim 1657 because I would argue it tells us a lot in an easy-enough-to-follow case study about how the British criminal justice system deals with things where crime and mental disorder collide […]

A press release by Simon Foster, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands was drawn to my attention yesterday regarding the Right Care, Right Person programme. It follows on from media coverage the scheme received by Times journalist Fiona Hamilton in September 2025 (with a subsequent follow-up piece in early November).  The PR […]