The far-right hijack a tragedy - again
The News Agents
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It took Merseyside police less than two hours to release information about the suspect who'd been arrested in the Liverpool parade crash which injured close to 50 people. The force told the public that it was a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area who had been detained. Right wing commentators and conspiracy theorists had already started speculating about the potential ethnicity and the motives behind the man alleged to have been involved.
So was it sensible policing aimed at quelling the misinformation? Or did the decision reveal just how close we are to unrest - like we saw in Southport - spook the police into revealing more than they normally would? LBC's crime correspondent Andy Hughes assesses the mood within the police.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:11.6 | A 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area was arrested. |
| 0:17.1 | We believe him to be the driver of the vehicle. |
| 0:26.6 | Extensive inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances leading up to the collision, and it is vital that people do not speculate or spread misinformation on social media. |
| 0:33.6 | I know that people will understandably be concerned by what has happened tonight. |
| 0:40.8 | What I can tell you is that we believe this to be an isolated incident |
| 0:45.7 | and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it. |
| 0:51.6 | The incident is not being treated as terrorism. That is Jenny Sims, the assistant |
| 0:57.4 | chief constable of Merseyside Police, last night barely four hours after the incident where |
| 1:05.1 | someone drove into a crowd of Liverpool supporters. It's hard to exaggerate just how exceptional it is for that detail |
| 1:14.3 | to be given so quickly about an incident, a 53-year-old white British man. The police seem to have |
| 1:24.1 | learned their lesson from what happened in Southport and the riots that ensued. |
| 1:29.5 | But what does it say about Britain in 2025? |
| 1:33.3 | The police feel compelled to release the ethnicity of a suspect in an incident like this. |
| 1:40.7 | Are they simply running from the far right and the toxin they've injected into our |
| 1:46.4 | politics? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And I've been |
| 1:55.9 | watching the parade of Liverpool fans celebrating winning the Premier League and it all seemed incredibly joyous. |
| 2:03.2 | And then in a moment the mood changed just after 6 o'clock, around 6 o'clock, |
| 2:07.1 | a man in a car drives into a crowd of people, reverses, drives again, and you think, |
| 2:14.6 | what on earth is unfolding. And of course, a number of people have been of course a number of people have been injured a number |
| 2:19.8 | of children have been injured some of them seriously a major incident was declared yeah and look given |
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