“This is a systemic disinvestment by successive governments”
“The whole system is struggling”
“We take our accountability seriously, the rest of the system is not doing that”
“[Levy] was released on licence by the prison service having sexually assaulted in prison one its people. I don't understand that decision either.”
“Those are mistakes and those are our mistakes, that is part of what is being investigated and that is part of what we've apologised for”
“too slow”
“So the inference that the Met didn't try on that case is just not true, the Met tried”
“combined evidence”
“didn't have enough evidence to get to a charge”
“clearly very suspicious and concerning”
“the facts on that are much more complex than people want to acknowledge”
“the public debate needs to be better informed”
“whole system failing”
“detectives had done "serious" work but "didn't have enough evidence" for a charge”
“just not true”