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Northamptonshire chief constable fined £50,000 for contempt

newsApr 30, 202618258

Northamptonshire Chief Constable Ivan Balhatchet was fined £50,000 after a court found he withheld body-worn video in the Nadine Buzzard-Quashie arrest case. Balhatchet had told courts that all recordings were released or deleted, but defence lawyers produced audit logs showing additional videos existed and had been accessed dozens of times. The ruling holds a serving senior officer personally liable for disclosure failures and signals tougher consequences for deliberate suppression of evidence, with implications for the integrity of past and future prosecutions.

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