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A Christian police community support officer lost his job for raising questions about Islam in a diversity training session.

Luke Salmons, 46, was dismissed from North Yorkshire Police and placed on a barred list following a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim colleague.

He successfully appealed against his sacking – but has never received an apology from the force.

Mr Salmons has now opened up on the horror ordeal, which has raised further fears over free speech in Britain and police forces’ diversity obsession in the wake of Henry Nowak’s murder.

The father-of-two from Harrogate spent eight years in policing after two-decades in construction.

He told The Telegraph on Friday: “I loved my job and I was good at it. I was well respected as a PCSO and my colleagues said they loved working with me and couldn’t understand what was happening.

“But an overzealous inspector took against me and that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong.”

Mr Salmons described the October 2024 training day at Northallerton headquarters as “indoctrination”.

“The whole day was pretty much about Islam. At one point the trainers walked up and down the room for several minutes saying ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ over and over again. It was bizarre,” he said.

A Muslim sergeant invited questions during the session, with staff specifically told they could speak freely.

Mr Salmons then asked the officer about Hamas and terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam.

The pair had a “really good discussion”, the ex-PCSO added, before he asked his Muslim colleague “what he understood jihad to mean”.

“There was no problem,” he said.

His colleague then invited him for coffee to continue their conversation.

Mr Salmons said: “I believed I was on safe ground when the training sessions invited open discussion. I quickly discovered that questioning Islam is now treated as ‘wrongthink’ within North Yorkshire Police.”

Before the coffee meeting, Mr Salmons brought a book to work called “Answering Jihad” by Muslim-turned-Christian author Nabeel Qureshi.

Two colleagues then saw it in his locker, took photos of it and reported him as a “risk.”

The following day, a female inspector summoned him to a meeting.

“There is no way that inspector would have taken a Muslim officer into a room and said: “I don’t like your beliefs,'” Mr Salmons said.

She told him to surrender his police ID and go home – where he remained suspended on full pay for months before resigning in April 2025.

He said: “It devastated me and my family. For months we lived in total uncertainty, with my reputation being shredded in secret.”

A disciplinary hearing in July 2025 formally dismissed him for gross misconduct and added his name to the College of Policing barred list.

At an appeal hearing in December, Chief Constable Tim Forber reversed the dismissal before Mr Salmons had even finished presenting his case.

The former officer reached an out-of-court settlement with North Yorkshire Police in April following employment tribunal proceedings.

He said: “There is a culture of fear – people are scared to say anything or ask anything in case they get pulled up for it.”

Mr Salmons now works as a senior housing officer for a homelessness charity, earning less than his previous £36,000 PCSO salary.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which supported him, said: “This case demands urgent political attention.

“It reveals a profound failure of leadership and neutrality within public institutions, and it raises serious questions about whether the Home Office and those responsible for police oversight are willing, or able, to confront the ideological capture that is eroding freedom of belief and expression from within.”

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said: “North Yorkshire Police is an inclusive employer and respects the rights of all individuals to their beliefs.

“The expression of those beliefs must always be with due consideration of respect and courtesy in line with our force values and behaviours framework.”

The spokesman claimed Mr Salmons had been referred to the professional standards department after “reports of concern from a number of colleagues about his behaviour and views”.

He continued: “He was found to have committed gross misconduct before the chief constable upheld his appeal against the decision finding that while Mr Salmons had made colleagues feel uncomfortable and unsettled at times, his actions did not represent gross misconduct nor a breach of any of the Police Staff Standards of Professional Behaviour.”

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A 41-year-old Eritrean migrant sexually harassed and coerced a 25-year-old man at Erlangen main train station in Germany on the night of Monday, June 1.

At around 2:00 a.m., the Eritrean sat down on a bench next to the 25-year-old German and spoke to the man several times. Then, he grabbed the victim’s buttocks. The 25-year-old pushed his hand away and changed places, but he was followed by the suspect.

“When he sat down next to the man again, he exposed his penis, grabbed the 25-year-old’s left wrist and tried to guide his hand to his penis,” the police wrote in a police report.

The Middle Franconia police headquarters reported the incident to the federal police and they arrested the Eritrean at the train station and took him to the police station.

However, instead of detaining the man, they completed the paperwork and released him. Remarkably, the African man has a police record for manslaughter and threats.

The Nuremberg Federal Police Inspectorate is now investigating him for sexual harassment and exhibitionist acts.

It is unclear if a judge ordered his release or police released him at their own volition.

New police data released days ago showed that foreigners committed 44 percent of the 27,800 violent crimes on trains last year, according to the Federal Police.

The data shows there were 27,800 violent crimes in German train stations and on trains in 2025.

Violent crime has nearly doubled since 2020, when there were only 16,327 violent crimes. At the time, the proportion of foreign suspects was at 42 percent.

In 2025, there were around 2,200 sexual offenses at train stations in Germany as well. Foreign suspects were eight times more likely to be represented than Germans for this crime category.

In addition, there were 980 knife crimes; with non-German suspects six times more common than German suspects in this category.

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 A Vatican briefing document for journalists covering Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Spain describes socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as a champion of “social rights” despite his government’s work to expand access to euthanasia and abortion.

On June 4, Spanish journalist María Rabell García published a document on El Debate distributed by the Holy See Press Office to accredited journalists ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic visit to Spain. The text, prepared by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication and intended to assist media coverage of the papal trip, presents Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as a political leader who has promoted economic growth and “social rights.” The document will serve as background material for reporters covering events during the visit, including a private meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Sánchez scheduled for June 8 in Madrid.

“The text is presented as a working instrument that gathers information from various sources and does not have an official character,” the document states in its introductory section.

The cabasario (“working document”) includes “a biography of the Prime Minister that highlights his political record in very favorable terms.” It states that Sánchez has “revived economic growth and social rights in Spain,” even though his policies are strongly restrictive economically and inspired by the tenets of socialism.

Moreover, Sánchez recently pushed through Spain’s euthanasia law and is now fighting to turn abortion into a “constitutional right,” as has already happened in France. In addition, Sánchez’s government has carried out a media campaign against the Catholic Church, portraying it as the main institutional source of sexual abuse in Spain despite evidence to the contrary.

According to Rabell García, the document emphasizes that Sánchez “has led several progressive coalition governments” and that “his work is aimed at strengthening the welfare state and the ecological transition.”

Furthermore, the document notes that Sánchez has been “praised for showing no deferential fear toward certain decisions of Donald Trump’s U.S. administration” and that his policies have allowed “half a million immigrants to be recently regularized in the context of demographic aging.”

To complete the apologetic portrayal of the Spanish leader’s record, the document concludes by stressing that Sánchez “is going through a serious crisis of support and a delicate phase marked by demonstrations calling for his resignation.”

The dossier will be read by journalists from around the world, and will therefore influence the global narrative about the trip and about the prime minister himself.

Meanwhile, the Spanish government has been involved in another recent scandal involving the Church. On March 4–5, 2025, Cardinal José Cobo Cano, archbishop of Madrid, and Félix Bolaños, Spain’s minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations, co‑signed a secret agreement allowing the state to transform much of the Catholic Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen into a museum, without involving either the Benedictines responsible for the basilica, the Spanish bishops, or the Holy See.

The agreement was signed before the government announced a public competition for the church’s “reinterpretation” for political and ideological use, contradicting the cardinal’s public statements in which he had assured that his role was merely to “accompany” the process.

The secret agreement not only violates the 1979 agreements between Spain and the Holy See – which guarantee ecclesial autonomy in places of worship – but is also canonically invalid, since a church cannot be “fragmented” into sacred and profane parts (canons 1210–1214), and reduction to profane use can apply only to the entire building (canon 1222).

The Spanish bishops stated that they had not been informed of the agreement, and the Benedictines who administer the basilica have filed an appeal against the government.

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A Ukrainian sea attack drone “self detonated” in the Romanian port of Constanta on Friday morning, prompting a major evacuation of Black Sea beaches as three other bomb boats were out of control and unaccounted for.

A group of Ukrainian suicide attack boat drones — the kind used to great effect against Russian warships in the Black Sea in the course of the Ukraine War — were apparently sent off course by electronic warfare and ended up at the port city of Constanta, Romania, on Friday morning. Romanian authorities were initially aware of one of the bomb boats which they attempted to disarm, but this failed and the craft apparently automatically “self-detonated”.

A statement by the Romanian government stated after identifying they had a Ukrainian suicide boat in their port, they contacted Kyiv which informed Bucharest that they had in fact lost contact with four of their bomb boats. An attempt to disarm the drone was made but this failed. The Romanian Intelligence Service, the Ministry of Defence, and the Coast Guard had already secured the area in the port of Constanta around the boat and evacuated, and when the large explosion took place — apparently destroying a wharf side building — there were no casualties.

A marine drone of the type used in the Ukraine war self-detonated in Romania's Black Sea port of Constanta near an oil terminal https://t.co/yauSAht7vP pic.twitter.com/MSUWWfHFJD

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 5, 2026

A hunt by helicopter for the three other drones took place and over 1,000 people were evacuated from Romania’s Black Sea beaches, in case any of the boats drifted onto the shore. In the end the three other boats also self-destructed, one close to the port and two more offshore. It is not unknown for weapons systems to have self-destruct features to prevent intact examples falling into the hands of enemy engineers.

A spokesman for the Ukrainian government said the boat drone that exploded in the Romanian port had lost control because of Russian electronic warfare — a well established facet of the conflict, where both sides attempt to disable or misdirect each other’s guided weapons by blocking or spoofing radio traffic, or otherwise confusing the weapons — and that Kyiv had cooperated with Romania to prevent a loss of life. They said: “This incident shows once again that Russia’s ongoing full-scale aggression poses a threat not only to Ukraine, but to the entire region. Effective coordination is key to mitigate its consequences to neighbouring countries.”

Romania also made clear that it blamed Russia for the Ukrainian drone having got lost before exploding in its territory. President Nicușor Dan said: “The entry of this drone into Romanian sovereign space represents a direct consequence of the war waged by Russia against Ukraine.

Russia denied responsibility.

That electronic warfare works both ways, and just last week it was a Russian attack drone that exploded in Romania, again presumably because it became lost after being misdirected. The drone flew into the side of an apartment block and exploded, but there were no fatalities.

Romania has been repeatedly on the front line of these lost munitions over the course of the war, and in no small part because its border with Ukraine takes the form of the Danube river, which is strategically and economically important to Ukraine’s war effort, leading to it becoming a regular target for Russian attacks. As previously reported:

Previous Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa and other cities up the Danube have come so close to the Romanian frontier that Romanian troops have observed drones landing on targets just 200 yards away from their positions. Romanian border villagers close to Galati, the scene of Thursday night’s attack, have already received new-built emergency bomb shelters from the Romanian military, so frequent is it that attacks land close to the border.

The sea drones that exploded in Romanian waters today are reported to be of the Magura V5, which have already been proven in combat and are said to have been behind the sinking of Russian missile corvette Ivanovets at sea. Another alleged Magura V5 turned up lost in Greece in the Ionian Sea last month, a considerable distance from home. Ukraine denied the explosives-laden boat was theirs.

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British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has instructed local councils run by her party not to fly the ultra-woke ‘Progress Pride’ flag—but indicated that the older pride flag is fine.

In recent years, many progressive organisations have abandoned the traditional six-stripe rainbow flag in favour of the Progress Pride flag, a newer design that supposedly incorporates transgender colours, stripes representing ethnic minorities, and an intersex emblem.

However, in an email to Conservative-run councils, seen by the Mail, party chairman Kevin Hollinrake writes: 

The original Rainbow Pride flag has come to be widely recognised as a symbol of respect and inclusion for gay people.

The so-called Progress flag, by contrast, was explicitly designed to represent a broader set of political and ideological causes. 

Its additional symbols are associated with contested ideas about gender identity, critical race theory, and social justice. Rather than uniting communities, the Progress flag is a symbol of identity politics, atomising society into different and divisive identities.

The guidance comes after Westminster City Council, which the Conservatives reclaimed from Labour at last month’s local elections, was seen flying the Progress Pride flag above its Victoria Street offices. The council’s leader even tweeted a video of the flag being hoisted.

The Pride 🌈 flag is flying at @CityWestminster HQ today for Pride month. The LGBTQIA+ community is a key part of Westminster's history so let's celebrate their contribution. #PrideMonth pic.twitter.com/lOLE7b69Y6

— Westminster City Council Leader (@Leader_WCC) June 1, 2026

The Mail reports that the banner was quickly taken down and replaced with the ‘traditional’ rainbow flag once it was noticed.

The Conservative Party’s position is in stark contrast to Reform UK, which has imposed a blanket ban on all Pride flags at council buildings under its control.

Last week, two local authorities controlled by Nigel Farage’s party moved to restrict Pride-related displays and events as part of a broader policy limiting the use of political and campaign flags on public property.

In the London borough of Havering, council leaders cancelled an annual Pride flag-raising ceremony that had marked the start of Pride Month for almost a decade. The authority also reiterated Reform UK’s policy that council buildings should generally fly only the Union Flag, the St George’s Cross, and flags honouring the armed forces and veterans.

Meanwhile, Reform-run Essex County Council instructed its 74 libraries to suspend the promotion of Pride Month activities through official council communication channels.

The episode highlights how far Britain’s political debate has shifted. Rather than questioning whether Pride flags belong on public buildings, the Conservative Party is now debating which Pride flag should be flown.

Reform UK, by contrast, has opted for a far simpler answer: none of them.

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Mother of the year–

In case you missed it… The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer was arrested and charged with assisting an offender and found guilty by a jury. She awaits sentencing for her crime.

According to reports, The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa (also referred to as Vickrum Singh Digwa), hid the murder weapon.

Digwa called his parents and they arrived at the scene before police.

Kiran Kaur (Digwa’s mother) took the knife from the scene before police arrived and hid it at their family home in nearby St Denys. Police later recovered it.

She took the knife home while Henry was bleeding out on the ground.

Kaur later was charged with assisting an offender (by removing/hiding the murder weapon) and found guilty by a jury. Digwa himself was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years (sentencing on 1–2 June 2026).

Kiran Kaur reportedly awaits sentencing.

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The Breizh Kebab restaurant in Lorient (Morbihan) opened its doors at the end of April 2026. It is located at 33 Avenue de La Perrière. The business is run by Paola Manso, her father Pietro and her brother Kylian.
The Breizh Kebab restaurant opened its doors on April 30, 2026, on Avenue de La Perrière in Lorient (Morbihan).

“We had a stall at the Interceltic Festival for several years,” says Paola Manso, the manager. She runs the establishment alongside her father Pietro and her brother Kylian. “At first we made classic kebabs, and one day our supplier ran out of meat and helped us out with pork. It was a huge success right from the start. The pork comes from Ty producers in Kervignac. Today, Breizh Kebab is developing into a restaurant.”

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Mohammad Rahim Peerzada (also known as Rahim Pirzada or Mohammad Rahim Wahidi), Afghanistan’s former ambassador to Spain under the Taliban regime, faces multiple accusations of sexual assault, including the alleged drug-facilitated rape of at least one German-Afghan woman.

Spanish authorities revoked his diplomatic immunity in March 2025 after several women came forward with serious allegations.

At least four women have accused him of sexual misconduct, with some claiming he used his official position to approach them and, in one case, drugged and raped them.

One of the most serious accusations comes from a 37-year-old Afghan woman living in Germany.

According to reporting by German newspaper Die Welt today, she claims Peerzada drugged and raped her in Madrid in 2022.

The woman told Die Welt anonymously: “My life will never return to how it was, but I at least hope there’s a chance for justice.”

Spanish police have formally requested an international arrest warrant for Peerzada.

He was detained by US immigration authorities at Washington Dulles Airport in late March 2025 while using an alias, and was questioned by the FBI about the allegations.

New judicial documents show the ex-ambassador’s background and testimony.

Peerzada served as the Taliban-appointed ambassador in Madrid.

He reportedly replied that “in Europe a lot is legal” and downplayed the accusations.

Regarding an accuser he said, “My wife knows that we are allowed to have several wives in Islam. But I don’t know that woman”.

There was also an exchange on Facebook, with someone telling him, “There is nothing more to talk about. You raped her 2.5 years ago. Now you have to wait and see what happens. I promise you will be on the news.”

Several victims allege he abused his diplomatic status to gain their trust, only to later abuse them.

Spanish authorities initially shelved investigations due to his diplomatic immunity, but revoked it after public pressure and media revelations.

He is no longer protected and Spain is seeking his extradition.

In Afghanistan he is also facing corruption allegations.

The case has drawn parallels to other high-profile scandals involving powerful men using drugs to commit sexual assaults (DFSA).

It has also sparked outrage over how diplomatic immunity can shield serious criminals.

Peerzada has denied all allegations, calling them baseless and saying that there were people who wanted to destroy his reputation.

His legal team has argued that no formal criminal charges were filed while he held immunity.

The scandal has embarrassed the Taliban regime, though, Peerzada, who also appears under the name Mohammad Rahim Wahidi, has also worked for the former, internationally recognised Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

An international arrest warrant remains active.

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The father of a German teenager murdered by a migrant on a regional train has questioned whether he and other bereaved parents could be treated as right-wing extremists after Saxony-Anhalt’s domestic intelligence agency cited an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician’s remarks about “murdered children” in its classification of the party’s state branch as an extremist organization.

According to Apollo News, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt justified its classification of the AfD state association as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization in part by pointing to the party’s migration rhetoric.

The agency’s report accuses the AfD of being “essentially permeated by the racist ideology of ethnopluralism” and says the party promotes the vision of ethnically homogeneous states. It claims that such a vision amounts to “the expulsion of all ‘aliens’.”

Among the examples cited as “xenophobic agitation” were a carnival speech by AfD deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider in which he claimed that illegal migrants “stream in here in masses and want to squander our money,” and a Facebook post from Oliver Kirchner, co-chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt in which he wrote, “”Let us never forget the murdered children for whom this illegal and uncontrolled immigration by the established parties is responsible. It can happen to anyone in Germany, anytime, anywhere!”

He also called for the removal of those “on whose hands the blood of the victims is stained and who are responsible for these conditions.”

The reference to murdered children has now become the center of a wider dispute after Michael Kyrath, whose 17-year-old daughter Ann-Marie was stabbed to death on a train near Brokstedt on Jan. 25, 2023, publicly challenged the state government.

Ann-Marie was killed alongside her 19-year-old boyfriend, Danny, by a stateless Palestinian man who had reportedly been released from custody just days earlier despite a history of violent crime.

Since his daughter’s murder, Kyrath has become a prominent voice among bereaved families demanding answers over violent crime, immigration, deportation failures and political accountability.

His daughter was murdered by an illegal Palestinian migrant, stabbed 38 times, along with her boyfriend.

17-year-old Ann-Marie is gone, but her father won't let her memory die. He delivered a message to Olaf Scholz's face:

"There are parents standing at the grave or coffin of… pic.twitter.com/JDslDGKFA4

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 16, 2024

In an interview with FAZ in January, Kyrath said families like his were repeatedly told that such attacks were isolated incidents.

“People always talk about these as regrettable isolated incidents. But we’re in contact with more than 1,000 families who have lost loved ones to violent crimes in recent years. It’s always the same perpetrator profile. It’s almost always the same weapon. It’s nearly always the same sequence of events. It’s always the same motives. And it’s always the same platitudes from the same politicians, who, after such an act, tearfully cry into the cameras. Then nothing happens,” he said.

Following the Saxony-Anhalt report, Kyrath asked on X whether he too would now be considered a right-wing extremist for publicly commemorating victims of illegal immigration.

The Saxony-Anhalt Interior Ministry replied to his post, saying, “Unfortunately, we are unable to comprehend why you assume that the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt would classify you as hostile to the constitution. We would be happy to discuss this in person. A phone number will follow via direct message.”

Kyrath responded by directly linking his own campaigning to the AfD passage cited by the intelligence agency.

“Is it not correct that someone from the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt was classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist because he thought of the murdered children by an illegal and uncontrolled immigration, and warned that it can strike anyone and anywhere?

“According to hearsay, the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt must also classify me and countless other bereaved parents as right-wing extremist — for after all, we too commemorate our children who were killed by murderers who immigrated illegally, had multiple prior convictions, and were subject to deportation! After all, we citizens are all equal before the law, aren’t we?” Kyrath wrote.

The ministry replied, “We can assure you that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution does not classify anyone as extremist for mourning the victims of the most horrific crimes.”

Kyrath later clarified that he did not believe he personally would be classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist, but said the logic of the report still raised a troubling question.

So, an diesem Punkt muss eines mal klar, deutlich und unmissverständlich klar gestellt werden:
NEIN, ich persönlich werde wohl nicht vom Verfassungsschutz als gesichert rechtsEXTREM eingestuft!

Allerdings hat der Verfassungsschutz einen Politiker als gesichert rechtsextrem…

— Michael Kyrath (@kueksElm) June 4, 2026

“The Constitutional Protection Agency has classified a politician as a right-wing extremist because he reminded people of the murdered children of illegal and uncontrolled migration and warned that it could strike anyone at any time!” he wrote.

“That’s exactly what I’m doing, and many other bereaved parents are doing too… we publicly remember our children murdered by illegal and uncontrolled migration and try to change something, because it can indeed strike anyone anywhere!”

“Of course, my post was deliberately provocative — and posed more as a question than as a fact,” he added.

“Nevertheless, the question remains hanging in the air: What is extreme right about it if one mourns murdered children of uncontrolled and thus illegal migration?”

The Saxony-Anhalt report also accuses the AfD of comparing modern Germany to the former East Germany and National Socialism, which officials say denigrates the democratic system and its institutions. It claims the state branch aims to break with the existing order across several areas of society.

The report additionally names a restaurant used for AfD events, describing it as a hub for “supra-regional gatherings of the far-right spectrum.”

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The mother of a Nottingham stabbing victim has raised questions over why the murder of her son was not treated as a racist attack.

Emma Webber declared it time to “consider the unpalatable” in discussions about Britain’s policing system and race, almost three years after her son, Barnaby Webber, was stabbed to death by a black man.

Valdo Calocane murdered three white people before attempting to kill another three in Nottingham, leaving them seriously injured on June 13 2023.

The murderer, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, is now serving an indefinite hospital order in a high-security facility.

Much of the case has focused on Calocane’s mental illness, having been treated by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for two years before the attacks.

But, with the recent tragedy of Henry Nowak fuelling anger towards Britain’s policing system, Mrs Webber, Barnaby’s mother, has compared her son’s murder to the killing of the 18-year-old university student, who was stabbed to death with a Sikh ceremonial blade.

She called on Britain to address the relevance of race in crime across Britain and claimed that if Calocane was a white man who murdered black people, race would have played a larger role in discourse surrounding the incident.

“What we do need to do is be brave and have those really difficult discussions in this country,” Mrs Webber told The Telegraph.

“(Calocane) was a black man who killed three white people and tried to kill another three white people, and that was never part of the conversation.

“If it had been the other way round, it would have been.”

In the case of Henry Nowak, discussions surrounding the local police force’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) were catapulted into the limelight.

On the night of the murder, officers were originally called to the scene in Southampton on December 3 after the murderer’s brother lied and said he had been racially abused.

The finance student was left to die while police handcuffed him and read his rights, just as the victim slipped out of consciousness after repeating “I can’t breathe” nine times.

The force in question, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, forced staff to endure diversity training against their will – despite receiving warnings against doing so.

Following a racism and misogyny scandal which led to the dismissal of five officers in 2021, the force introduced a mandatory equality and inclusion training programme.

The taxpayer-funded scheme cost £861,737 in total, which is roughly £144 for every employee over a three-year period.

Hampshire Police’s 6,250 members of staff were all made to undergo the in-house initiative.

After interviewing officers, Reading University’s Professor Netta Weinstein – one of the training course’s creators – warned that the course could “backfire, resulting in reinforcing bias or counterproductive behaviours”.

The force’s staff were trained to be aware of racism, unconscious bias, and privilege, alongside contested “critical race theory”.

One in seven of those at Hampshire Police had felt “controlled and pressured” to adopt these notions, living in fear “mistakes would have been held against me”, a damning survey exposed.

Meanwhile, a fifth said they feared being “rejected for saying the wrong thing”.

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