James O'Brien reacts to MPs' verdict on the Southport riots | LBC

James O’Brien addresses listeners after MPs concluded that misinformation was allowed to flourish because police and prosecutors withheld information following the Southport killings.

The Home Affairs Select Committee said it recognised that speculation and misinformation — particularly the belief that the suspect was an asylum seeker — were drivers of the disorder during the riots that rocked the country last summer.

MPs stated that the Crown Prosecution Service and Merseyside Police were ultimately limited in what they could publish about the then-unnamed suspect, Axel Rudakubana, due to the Contempt of Court Act 1981, which prohibits the publication of information that could prejudice criminal proceedings.

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