Police 'should confirm names'
Attorney General Dominic Grieve has told ITV News the police should confirm a suspect’s name if the press have identified them and asked for confirmation.
Grieve: Police should confirm suspects names to journalists
Dominic Grieve, Attorney General of England and Wales, has told ITV News that he agrees with Home Secretary Teresa May that the police should confirm a suspect’s name if the press have identified them and asked for confirmation.
He told UK Editor Lucy Manning: "If the press have got to know who somebody is who's been arrested and are publicising that, then clearly it might be very sensible for the police to confirm that fact.
"But equally, I don't think we should end up with a process in which the police are being subjected to fishing expeditions with dozens of names being reeled out to them and an obligation to pick one of them.
"That seems to me to be a matter which must be within the discretion of the police."
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