John Yates: The Beginning of the End?

Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service is today the centre of controversy about whether or not he misled UK Parliamentary Select Committees inquiring into phone hacking by (or on behalf of) one or more News of the World journalists.

Essentially, the question at issue seems to be whether Yates misled Members of Parliament about the number of people whose phone messages had been hacked.

Now, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions has given written evidence to MPs which appears to show that Yates misled the MPs when he gave evidence some time ago.

See, for example, Phone-hacking case policeman John Yates under pressure to resign.

Will Yates resign?

The purpose of the "The Police Are Cheating Us" blog

In this blog I intend to explore a number of issues that cause me concern as to whether a number of Police forces in the United Kingdom are behaving in ways contrary to the behaviour which the British public has a right to expect.

Over the next few weeks I intend to post evidence that leads me to conclude that some UK Police forces are premeditatedly covering up serious crimes. But only covering up serious crimes by certain individuals.

In practice, it seems to me that some individuals are essentially above the Law.

And, in part at least, it's what I view as corrupt practices by certain UK Police forces that put certain individuals and groups above the Law.