Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley has issued a thinly-veiled rebuke of politicians including Sadiq Khan over the Chris Kaba case.Sir Mark said some people with “huge influence” risked undermining the British justice system and that rebuilding trust needed to be a “shared endeavour”.
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00:00There's always going to be in these moments during an investigation a lack of public information
00:07and we're always going to see a range of conjecture and some of it nonsense on social
00:13media and that's unavoidable. But I think what's helpful is wherever possible
00:22to recognise that cases like this for me, this case particularly prompts three sort of issues for
00:30debate. Firstly of course there is sympathy for a family regardless of the circumstances and
00:35recognising that particularly in that context of rumour these incidents can fall heavy on
00:42communities. But secondly empathy for officers and the role that they do in the challenging
00:49situation they face. Having regular coffees with Martin Blake over recent months
01:02I've been astounded by his personal resilience and dignity with what the world has thrown at
01:10him and his family which has turned their life upside down when he was confronting a dangerous
01:17criminal on behalf of us all. He would be the first to say he expected full accountability.
01:28Normally that would be done in an inquest. Many of us were surprised it was done through a murder
01:31trial but normally that would just be done in an inquest. But regardless of that he expects
01:36that accountability. But the third point I think it prompts is
01:42I think making this about race is a sort of dangerous and helpful conversation.
01:54The 6-7 gang are a dangerous gang. They're amongst the most dangerous gangs in London.
02:01We reckon they've got about 95 core members. This year so far we're into more than double figures of
02:08boys who we sort of rescued from exploitation by the gang and we all know the pathway sort of 12,
02:1513, 14 year olds been drawn into gangs, bullied, coerced in a vulnerable sort of position running
02:20drugs and they're the gang leaders of the future and that's a sad sad cycle.