The Metropolitan Police has begun interviewing key witnesses in the investigation into parliament’s alleged Covid-19 breaches, it said Monday.
So far, more than 100 questionnaires have been sent out, all which are being individually assessed, as part of Operation Hillman, with further questionnaires sent out based on responses that have already been given.
The questionnaires gives witnesses the “opportunity to give an account of their involvement,” the Met said in a statement. No fines have been issued yet.
Meanwhile, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spoke publicly for the first time following her return to the UK on Monday, said her reunion with her husband and daughter has been “precious” and “glorious”, but that her release from detention in Iran should have happened six years ago.
Referencing her husband thanking the government a few moments earlier, she said: “I do not really agree with him on that level.”
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the negotiations for their return had been “extremely complicated” and that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s return had been a priority for successive foreign ministers, while Labour MP Tulip Siddiq called for an inquiry into the case.
