Police formally requested to investigate Dominic Cummings over #CumGate
A police chief has formally written to Durham Constabulary asking them to ‘establish the facts’ about Dominic Cummings alleged journeys to the area during lockdown.
The Prime Minister’s most senior aide first travelled to Durham at the end of March with his family after experiencing coronavirus symptoms. On March 31, officers said they were ‘made aware of reports that an individual had travelled from London to Durham and was present at an address in the city’.
He is then alleged to have broken lockdown restrictions to visit Barnard Castle, 30 miles away from his parents home, on April 12. Downing Street said he then returned to London on April 14, but another witness claims they saw him admiring the bluebells in the woods near Houghall, in County Durham, on April 19.
Steve White, acting Durham police and crime commissioner, has now written to written to Durham Constabulary’s chief constable Jo Farrell asking her to ‘establish the facts concerning any breach of the law or regulations’.
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In a statement, he said: ‘It is vital that the Force can show it has the interests of the people of County Durham and Darlington at its heart, so that the model of policing by consent, independent of government but answerable to the law, is maintained.
‘It will be for the Chief Constable to determine the operational response to this request and I am confident that with the resources at its disposal, the Force can show proportionality and fairness in what has become a major issue of public interest and trust.’
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