Whether gullibly or cynically we know not, but Police Minister Vernon Coaker has up till now peddled the police lie that 70 officers were injured during the August 2008 Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, Kent. This lie was used to justify the use of blanket search powers during the £5.9m police operation against climate-change protesters.
But Coaker has now written to the Lib Dem's David Howarth to say: "Kent police have informed the Home Office that there were no recorded injuries sustained as a result of direct contact with the protesters." The causes of the twelve recorded injuries that did occur included "heat and sun", and a "possible wasp".
Sources:
Apology over policing 'injuries' (BBC)
Those Kingsnorth police injuries in full: six insect bites and a toothache (Guardian)
Government overstated police injuries at Climate Camp (Lib Dems)
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