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Tory Councillor’s wife was jailed last year for 31 months for inciting racial hatred in the wake of the Southport murders - a sentence that has been criticised as harsh

A paramedic, a doctor and other NHS staff have been honoured for their role in responding to the Southport attacks.

Within hours of a driver ramming into a crowd at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade, injuring 65 people, Merseyside Police shared in a press release that they had arrested a suspect. Unusually, the announcement included the race and nationality of the person arrested – a 53-year-old white British man.

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“Information voids are almost a gravitational force for conspiracy theorists," said one expert who welcomed the police's early intervention.

Former superintendent Dal Babu says although decision was correct, to counter misinformation, it may be exploited by far right

Former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent Dal Babu said he believes Merseyside Police released the details to dampen down speculation.

Releasing details of the suspect’s ethnicity and nationality so quickly has been described as ‘complete step change’ from the response to the Southport attack as police try and quash online disinformation

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