Tony Lloyd: Government must review case to ensure lessons are learnt

“I do not believe that it was ever right to spend the best part of a year pursuing the truth by using health and safety legislation. Health and safety laws are in place, rightly, to protect workers and the public in the workplace. They are not intended to sit in judgement on policing operations such as these, as the collapse of this case has shown.

“Central Government must review this case to ensure the proper lessons are learnt. We cannot have years go by in tragic cases like this before proper conclusions can be drawn. We cannot have major matters of public policy being determined by health and safety legislation that was not drawn up with this kind of case in mind. I will be raising this directly with the Home Secretary.”