A former chief prosecutor and a leading lawyer calling for an investigation into Dominic Cummings’ Covid-19 lockdown breach has been forced to move after attacks on his home, it has emerged.
Nazir Afzal has urged police to reopen the investigation into Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. He has reportedly also asked the Metropolitan force to launch an inquiry into claims the former adviser flouted regulations by leaving his home to drive to the North East while family members had coronavirus symptoms. Now, if recent reports are to be believed then “a brick was thrown through the window of his family home in Manchester” and his car was “slashed” outside his home.
In his statement to The Guardian, he said, “My family felt scared. I don’t blame Dominic Cummings. All I know is that in 25 years prosecuting some of the most organised criminals in the country, nobody has attacked my home. Yet suddenly someone starting attacking me and my family and we’ve had to move house. It has made me more committed to delivering justice, not just in the Cummings case, but for anybody for feels they are not being listened to. More than 3,000 people have crowdfunded the campaign to get Cummings prosecuted, and thousands more have messaged me to say ‘you’re doing this for me’. This is about restoring trust.”
Lawyers for Nazir Afzal have also reportedly written to police urging officers to investigate further and asked the Crown Prosecution Service to play a 'proactive role' in considering relevant evidence.
In their letter to Durham Police, they wrote, "We understand you have undertaken a short, narrow investigation into three matters and given your views on whether they constituted a breach of the regulation.
"However, it appears not all of the relevant evidence relating to those matters has been gathered. Further, a number of other alleged breaches of the regulations which occurred in Durham do not appear to have been investigated at all."
