Is It The Same Tracking App That The Police Refuse To Use To Find Your Stolen Phone?

The father of massacred Nottingham student Barnaby Webber watched in horror on a tracking app as his son's phone moved - to a police station. David Webber had heard a man and woman had been killed but he could not reach Barnaby, and when he phoned police, they refused to speak to him. Panicking that something was wrong, Mr Webber told the public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks how dread set in as he and the 19-year-old's mother Emma followed his location on the Find My Phone app.

A handy little app, except when you expect it to help the police recover your stolen phone and here, it once again showed up their utter dereliction of the duty we, the public, fondly believe they have to us:

He said: 'I phoned the police, and said who I was, and I said who my son was, and I remember a distinct change in tone from the lady I was speaking to.'

That was a result of the penny dropping, and the realisation she couldn't get away with lying to you as her colleagues were assiduously doing to other bereaved families:

Mrs Webber told the inquiry: 'We're spending far too much time worrying about discrimination and segregation and doing the wrong thing because somebody's of a certain colour or certain religion. 

'If you're dangerous, you're dangerous, and it does not matter what colour you are or where you're from.' 

To a normal person, that's undoubtedly true. But it seems we no longer employ them in rhe modern police farce. We employ the easily moulded, or the frankly criminal: 

She also condemned police officers who accessed footage from the attacks and discussed it on WhatsApp. She said: 'Reading the content of that WhatsApp message, it was so destructive, so destroying, so awful. 'The author of that message chose to refer to our children as being "properly butchered" and "innards out" and everything. That's disgusting and grotesque.'

And to anyone who tries to excuse this as 'typical banter to cope with a stressful job' I'll remind you that they should have known this wasn't acceptable.