Sunday, 31 July 2022

QUEEN’S ESTATES - POLICE NEED PERMISSION TO INVESTIGATE (AND WHO SAYS?)

 Queen's consent

investigations

Monarchv

Ludicrous': limits on police wildlife

inquiries on Queen's estates decried

Campaigners say need for monarch's consent to investigate

accusations amounts to power to cover up

Rob Evans, Severin Carrell

and David Pegg

Sun 17 Jul 2022 12.16 BST

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0 Police have in the past investigated deaths of a marsh harrier (pictured), a goshawk, a

sparrowhawk and other raptors, but only one prosecution has been brought Photograph: Les

Bunyan/Wild Ken Hill/PA

Wildlife campaigners have said it is "ludicrous" that police have to ask the

Queen's permission before they can enter her private estates to investigate

alleged wrongdoing.

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