Sir Mike Penning intervenes in an Adjournment Debate to back calls for a public inquiry into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and subsequent events where the suspect was allowed to leave, return and, for a period, settle in this country before leaving again.
Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead) (Con)
As the hon. Member—my friend—knows, I have been involved in this issue for many years; before that, Sir Teddy Taylor was trying to get justice for the murder of Yvonne Fletcher. The question I have to ask—I asked it when I was the police Minister and I have asked it in parliamentary questions—is: why was that man allowed to come in and out of the country? He was not just a suspect in the Yvonne Fletcher murder but accused of other criminal activities, and yet he walked in and out of this country. That is why an inquiry is vital.
Allan Dorans
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I agree. Hopefully we will get answers to those questions.
Sir Mike Penning
The Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan police can make such a decision only if they have the evidence that the Government have, which they have not handed over to the CPS.
Will the Minister answer the question about whether or not the information that the Government have will be passed over to the CPS so that it can make that decision?
Kit Malthouse (The Minister for Crime and Policing)
I will come to that point in a moment, if I may.