Frome the ConservativeHome Blog
// splashed across the front page of today’s Sunday Times. The paper reports that “a senior police officer has blown the whistle on what he claims was a conspiracy by Scotland Yard protection officers to “stitch up” [Mitchell]“.
The officer in question has apparently named “a police colleague whom he alleges “orchestrated” the plot to bring down Mitchell”. He apparently received the information from a superior officer, and admits he does not have direct knowledge of the conspiracy he has outlined. Nonetheless, “his account is being taken seriously by the Met,” according to the Sunday Times, “which has described him as ‘potentially a key witness’ “. A net may be closing in on a conspiracy…or then again it may not. But whatever is the case, the conclusion is the same. Mitchell is innocent, and should be restored to the Cabinet as soon as possible. //
Still got quite a way before this story is concluded.