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Jon Boutcher, the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has defended his force’s decision to tell the public yesterday that the man arrested for the Belfast knife attack on Monday night was Sudanese.
In an interview on the BBC’s Good Morning Ulster, he said:
We have learned that if we don’t give information, then online misinformation and lies lead to people believing things that aren’t true and start to mindlessly conduct attacks – and that was what happened at Southport not that long ago.
We said we ‘believe’ that because that was the information that we were given after the incident occurred and we’re always going to get more detailed information as time passes by.
I was pushing very directly with the Home Office to give us the information that we required so that we could comply with the lessons learned previously.
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