Metropolitan Police urged to investigate Dominic Cummings alleged coronavirus lockdown breaches

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Afzal, who has become the figurehead of a citizens’s bid to ensure the actions of the prime minister’s top aide are properly scrutinised, added that his legal team already has been given “information from reliable sources that reflect poorly on everybody who has considered the allegations thus far”. Lawyers for Mr Afzal, whose brother died with Covid-19 in early April, have now written to Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, Durham Police’s chief constable Jo Farrell, and the CPS’s director of public prosecutions, Max Hill calling for immediate inquiries into Mr Cummings’s movements. The letter to Durham Police said that it appears “not all of the relevant evidence” had been gathered during its “short, narrow investigation” and that a number of Mr Cummings’s alleged breaches in Durham appeared not to have been investigated at all. The CPS were encouraged to play a proactive role in considering further relevant evidence amid “serious and widespread public concern about Mr Cummings’s apparently unlawful conduct”.