Colin Sutton
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Retired murder SIO. Writing, TV & golfing. Tour dates 2023-4, coming to your town soon. ⛳️Handicap 13.3, on the rise 😩
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No face paint, no twerking or prancing, just a good Police Officer doing community engagement in a dignified and sensible way.
Well done that man!
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Am I alone in worrying about just who exactly Sadiq Khan might have confidence in?
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My son has been chosen as one of the police officers to line the funeral route with some colleagues & armed services personnel - rather than duty within the crowd.
Proud but more than that thrilled for him- it will be a memory he will always treasure. I am a very jealous Dad!
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Message I received re Bristol from a serving police officer this morning.
‘They had sufficient resources, on hearing they’d put ropes around the statue asked to be deployed but were ordered to stay away...Officers in A&S are absolutely gutted by the decision making’.
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Every activist, every politician, every journalist who has perpetuated this divisive narrative of vilifying the police. This is on you.
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My friend of 45 years, a Labour Party member for most of them, wrote this today. And it is so accurate.
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My souvenir from being stopped last night by
@NorfolkPolice
traffic officers. Of course I blew zero!
No drama, just 2 professional, polite officers doing their jobs & showing me as much respect as I gave them back. Delayed me for 5 minutes at most.
Really not a problem is it?
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Spent the last couple of weeks explaining that dealing with horrors like Bellfield and Grant still never pierced my professionalism to drive me to hatred.
Step forward Wayne Couzens, I never met you but you have achieved what even they could not.
#waynecouzens
#thtrowawaythekey
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Watch behind Martin Brunt at the two Londoners paying their respects. They, not the activists and the dividers, represent our city, my city - and the one that will win out.
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Why are police leaders still sending officers into potentially volatile situations with no protective equipment? Because it is provocative? Well, leaving our officers vulnerable to this sort of completely avoidable injury certainly provokes me.
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It s a travesty of common sense and of justice that he is now to be allowed to marry and begin to exert this sort of control over another woman.
The law must be changed to prevent this kind of abuse of women being dished out from a prison cell. Immediately.
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I am done with our news media. Sorry to all those journos who I have always tried to find time to help, please don’t bother any more. I’ll decline just as politely as I’ve assisted in the past but I can’t be a part of it now. Nothing personal but change has to come from within.
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It is some time since I was involved in trying to record speech through brick walls but I know it wasn’t easy. I’d be surprised if a phone or similar would do it, I’d have thought more specialist equipment would be needed. Like the kit used by police or journalists or something?
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When he was on remand I listened to Levi Bellfield order his teenage girlfriend to hold her phone over her flushing toilet - so he could recognise the noise and thus believe her that she was at home, rather than out with another man. She complied.
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6th October 1985, a date etched in my mind as well as those of many others.
Keith, Richard, Serial 502 and all the colleagues who were so let down. How you suffered on that terrible night will never be forgotten.
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Today of all days to get a BBC request. It is a tiny, insignificant gesture perhaps but it makes me feel better with myself.
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Thanks for the feedback on
#Manhunt
. I am amazingly lucky to have been part of 2 fantastic teams. I have received a huge number of messages; I *will* get to reply to them but it will take a little while! And likewise for all the new followers I have here. So grateful to you all.
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6th October every year has a special sadness for many of us. 37 years on, never forgotten.
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I can't help thinking that if police were relieved of the need to cover for ambulances, or spend hours babysitting at hospitals and covering for social services out of hours it might be just like getting 20,000 extra officers. Fully-trained ones, now.
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Since the media seem generally to be unwilling to share this I thought I might try. From Fulford LJ's sentencing remarks yesterday - full text here:
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My 1st day filming for next Sky series today was an interview which will stay with me forever. The bravery & determination of those who lose loved ones to murder amazes & inspires me. Will be a moving episode
And I went all ‘new Premier League signing’ for the publicity snaps 😳
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I mean no malice by this, I promise.
Media outlets & journalists: I don't want to offer opinion or insight to the search for
#GaynorLord
. And I urge my former colleagues to do likewise.
Let
@NorfolkPolice
get on with their work.
Surely you learnt something from
#NicolaBulley
?
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I thought I'd never have a photo of my son's involvement in today's breath-taking ceremony. So thank you,
@vghirda
and
@Telegraph
Police officers take positions ahead of the Queen Elizabeth II funeral in central London.
This was the scene on The Mall this morning:
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Leave aside the contentious ’war criminal’ stuff, almost every ill this country faces in ‘22 traces back to the Blair years.
So giving him a knighthood for services to the UK seems stupidly ironic.
What next, Dame Theresa May for services to policing?
Happy new year, anyway.
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Asking for a friend, does anyone know how to convert toilet rolls into petrol?
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@LaylaMoran
“We both recognised it wasn’t our finest hour...”
Classic victim-blaming statement of a domestic abuser.
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In 2006 I was prosecuted for speeding on the A3. I was doing 58 mph in a 50 limit.
The officers acted in good faith, interpreted the law correctly and there was no wrongdoing.
How much compensation should I expect?
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I’m getting slightly depressed & very irritated by the number of apparently intelligent people who appear to want our nation to fail to cope with a pandemic just because they lost a public vote or three & feel it gives them something with which to attack the Government. Grow up.
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I was asked to write something for the Spectator and it really helped me to crystallise my thoughts about the Bellfield marriage debate:
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I think he has a point. At my GP surgery the receptionist produces an SA-80 from under the desk if she thinks you are about to ask for an appointment.
"It's not inconceivable that the pile of kalashnikovs belonged to the hospital security department".
Rather than applying Occam's Razor,
@BowenBBC
strains every sinew to cast doubt on the claim that the hospital was being used by Hamas terrorists.
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I wanted it to sink in a while before I tried to express my feelings.
I am surprised just how upset I am at The Queen’s passing. I never met her but of course I swore to serve her 41 years ago.
An oath from which has no formal end, even when you start drawing the pension…
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35 years on, we will never forget Keith, his colleagues on Serial 502 and all those whose lives were changed forever that terrible night.
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Delighted, grateful and honoured to learn that
#ManhuntTheNightStalker
has been nominated in the drama category in the 2022 Royal Television Society Programmes awards.
@RTS_media
@itvpresscentre
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Ed Whitmore and I have collaborated on scripts for seven episodes of
#manhunt
.
We are both of the view that tonight’s- series 2, episode 3 - is our favourite.
ITV, 9pm and thereafter on the ITV Hub.
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From the Facebook page of the wife of a Met armed cop today. Just so you know they have brave people behind them too.
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Seems publication date for my next book will be 16th September. Available for pre-order on Amazon now.
Manhunt: The Night Stalker:
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Latest info I am getting re Bristol yesterday:
1. That the
@ASPolice
evidence gatherers (officers with video or still cameras) were instructed to avoid going to the area at the centre of the demonstration.
2. That the Mayor was in the control room for the operation.
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Longish piece on
@BBCNews
tonight on the Hackney water pistol. It lacked 2 things:
Any pictures, like of the water pistol in question (see below); and
Any basis for the assertion that action would’ve been different had the child been white.
They just love to breed division.
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@AaronBastani
Many bags there are just £4000.
So Corbyn could get five for just one appearance on Iranian TV.
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As is almost always the case, there is no correlation of any kind between what this woman says and reality.
"No direct correlation between certain crime and police numbers."
Theresa May says the gov't is looking at "issues that underpin knife crime" after two teens were killed over the weekend.
Sajid Javid is meeting police chiefs over the rise in knife crime:
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Who’d have thought it?
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I watched all of
#FourLives
tonight.
As a drama it was brilliantly executed. And I still find the story shocking, tragic and utterly beyond my comprehension.
I just cannot understand how it was allowed to happen.
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You don’t need signals like rainbow epaulettes, painted nails or wrapped cars. This badge alone should show you care for ALL the community:
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Twice in the last 24 hours I have seen these swift factual rebuttals from
@metpoliceuk
accounts. Good to see.
@JoyWhite2
@UnjustUK
@mikewhoatv
@joywhite2
Please see the statement below which sets out the circumstances that led to this arrest and the eventual outcome.
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I’m sitting having breakfast in a beautiful hotel in beautiful Hexham, flicking through the news.
Looking at stories from Conservative England, Labour Wales and SNP Scotland in an election year.
And my conclusion is that we are well and truly stuffed, no matter what we do.
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Funny how so many people who claimed the lockdown guidance was vague and confusing are now of the opinion it was clear and unambiguous.
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Out for lunch with these two later. I realise how lucky I am to still have them both around at my time of life.
Happy Mother’s Day to all Mums, whether they are here or in a better place.
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Perhaps
@bbcnews
reporters should look at the law before making snide remarks about the distance Prince Charles travelled to see his father, and the COVID arrangements at the hospital.
His visit was completely lawful and yes, you or I could do it for our fathers.
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I’ve never tried to pull a statue down but I imagine it is the work of quite a few minutes.
Which I’d also imagine would give nearby police officers plenty of time to intervene and prevent it?
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Puts 3 people driving to Barnard Castle into perspective does it not?
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LBC. Leading Britain’s Conversation - as long as it is the conversation they want you to hear.
@LBC
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They had one. They sold it, as they sold so many buildings. Leading to disparate teams lacking in the cohesion and immediate leadership which is now needed to grip the problems. Those cuts have had many and varied consequences.
Police need Sandhurst-style training facility to change ‘troubling’ culture. Lord Herbert, the head of the College of Policing, has called for a purpose-built centre to instil necessary values and leadership skills in all ranks
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@DavidVidecette
@abennett_police
I’d have liked to see him try to justify it if it had fallen into the crowd and caused injury. Absolute dereliction of duty on several levels.
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If the Supreme Court affirms the last sentence of this extract (highlighted in red) then might Government attention turn to those above picked out in blue?
For if it is lawful to prorogue for political purposes it must surely be lawful to extend that prorogation for the same?
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Excellent news that
@metpoliceuk
are looking at allegations from women coming forward after
#Manhunt
. I have passed them everything that has come to me, but please be clear - I won't tell the police if you ask me not to, AND I'll never give names to journalists or anybody else.
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A BLM protest causes 27 police casualties and is described as ‘mainly peaceful’; today’s ‘hard right’ thuggery causes 6.
Either the descriptions are wrong or there was a significant change in tactics which protected officers.
I’m not sure which explanation disturbs me more.
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Remember those really irritating kids at school, the ones who would always ask a pointless question near the end, prolonging the length of the lesson?
How come they are all now working for the media at virus updates?
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Mildly amusing dilemma for the presenters on
@BBCNews
channel at the moment. They have live helicopter pictures from Trafalgar Square, but as they don't know which side the protestors are from they are not sure whether to condemn or praise and so are just mumbling
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An
#FBPE
hard core bigot acquaintance has spent a lot of time reweeting how Dominic Cummings took us all for fools, one rule for the elite etc. Ad nauseam. But I know that, after lock down, she & her husband made a 120-mile trip to collect a parent who is now staying with them.
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@Femi_Sorry
Hey, Femi. This is largely your generation. And each one of them is worth 10000 of you.
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Manhunt - my account of our investigation into serial killer Levi Bellfield - on which the ITV drama Manhunt is based - is now available to pre-order on Amazon, including a Kindle edition. Drama airs 6/7/8 January; Book publication date 10th January 2019
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It never gets easier to bear. Rest easy Sarge.
Announcement | Death of Sergeant Graham Saville
It is with great sadness that Nottinghamshire Police confirms the death of a serving officer in the line of duty.
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I have every reason to believe this, sent to me by a very trustworthy source. Seems a bit hypocritical though, doesn’t it?
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Very important anniversary tomorrow. The sadness will be tempered by the uplift of so many of the family in blue coming together to remember and the enduring determination that some justice will be done.
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1. I’m no hero.
2. I never ‘blasted’ anybody.
3. As I said to the decent Australian journalist from whose podcast this was culled and distorted by someone without his integrity, a reconstruction would have been a great idea if only those involved would have taken part.
Hero cop blasts Portuguese cops for not staging reconstruction in Maddie McCann case
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Watch this and remember that many officers will have to face this sort of threat armed only with a heavy-duty car aerial and some pepper spray. If we don’t equip them more appropriately we don’t really deserve them.
#Lambeth
The moment Met Police officers Taser and detain a 59 year old man wielding a machete on a Platform at
#TulseHill
Station this evening.
Police were called just after 6.30pm.
The man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Video:
@xarapandapop
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Hey
@ITVMartha
. Your piece on the
@itvnews
10 tonight showed the statistic that black people are 9x more likely to be stopped & searched than white people. You even gave this statistic the apparent credibility of being labelled ‘Source: Home Office’. But what you have done...
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I know you always think your children or pets are the brightest, but it really is amazing how, at just 16 weeks, Paddy is learning from the other dogs in the house 🙃
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I called them Water Fairies, Trumpton & made fun of their propensity for smashing things up. But, banter aside, firefighters are brave public servants giving everything to keep you safe. Just as we did. So, brothers & sisters, as you get the shit we did for years, keep the faith.
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So much has changed in my lifetime, much of it not for the better and now that guiding light, that giver of stability, that point of reference has left us.
There has never been a better public servant and I doubt very much there ever will be.
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When I saw Thatcher, Major, Brown & Cameron leave No.10 I felt for them - I respected their achievement & sympathised as they lost the position they had craved.
When I see May go I will feel nothing, thinking only of the harm she brought to the best police service in the world.
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Now that Peter Sutcliffe is dead and so no longer has any human rights, ought it be possible to run his DNA profile against the Crime scene stain database? There are a fair few unsolved crimes from his era on there.
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I discovered a photo today, 16 December 1985, setting off on my first day as an Inspector. Proof of the ravages of time, cigarettes, alcohol and murder investigation.
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I wonder what most people will think when they read this
@bbcnews
headline? And was that the intention - since there is obviously space to insert the word ‘probation’?
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Baseball caps mean they are level 2 PSUs. Which means they have protective kit on their bus. Which means some senior(ish) officer cares more about the ‘optics’ than the safety of his/her officers. Which means they should be held to account for that. Utterly disgraceful.
#Hammersmith
BREAKING: Met Police officers have had bottles pelted at them after attempting to encourage revellers to leave an illegal rave / ‘block party’ on the
#WhiteCity
Estate in west-London.
The event was being held on Havelock Close, W12.
Video:
@davekayani
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Drama is at its best when it shows ordinary people in extraordinary yet credible situations. As I’ve learned over the past few years, less is often more.
#sarahwainwright
nailed it in
#HappyValley
. Definitely my favourite fictional cop drama.
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Like many others, I have been concerned for some time about the future of British policing.
No longer. We can sleep soundly tonight now 🤔
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@SurreyPolice
Rather than issue threats on Twitter why not use it to engage? Many are asking reasonable questions as to why virtually no prosecutions are pursued. Couldn’t you explain to them?
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Well my Mum’s favourite at least. Filming is going well, going to be a good series I am sure.
Everyone's favourite former DCI is back! What cases do you think Colin will be delving into this time?
Comment below!
#TheRealManhunter
#ColinSutton
#SkyCrime
#truecrime
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More than 100 golfers. And me. Lovely day for a brilliant cause.
With the lovely
@colinsutton
at Yvonne Fletcher Charity Golf Dinner!
On the 17th April it will be forty years since Yvonne was murdered in St James Square. Never forgotten - I was there…
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If I had sent those unprotected officers in there to get injured I would be inconsolable tonight.
I’d be questioning my judgement, my intelligence, my ability. I’d know that I had failed my colleagues and feel that I ought never to be making such important decisions again.
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My visit to the loo in a hotel last night was amusing and intimidating at the same time.
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I have a 2:1 in law & I was a police officer for 30 years.
I've never been a barrister or the DPP.
However if, after so forensic an examination as my mind allows, I were certain I had not broken the law, no way would I accept an FPN.
Off to court to challenge it I would go
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It is a Bank Holiday weekend, the sun is shining, Teresa May has resigned and then:
I get an email offering a deal for two new books.
I might just raise a glass or two this evening.
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I’m trying to get my head round why, more than 5 hours after being told this was not a
@metpoliceuk
officer,
@theJeremyVine
has not deleted his erroneous tweet
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The traditional post-Christmas lunch nap isn’t just for humans you know…..
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In 1989-90 I had a 1972 Mini with rusty doors. It also had the drivetrain from my old rallycross car; it was a bit louder than usual. I got stopped driving home from late turn 7 times in that period. To this day, none of those who stopped me knows I was then a Police Inspector.
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