'Eighteen month forensic delay for death of London cyclist not good enough', says MP

Harry Webb was one of three people killed while cycling in the London Borough of Hackney within a six-week period - (London Remembers)

A Home Office minister has promised to look into the amount of time it takes the police to investigate fatal road crashes after being told of the “excessively long wait” being suffered by the grieving parents of a young Londoner.

It comes after The Standard revealed that the Met police forensic investigations into the alleged hit-and-run death of 27-year-old music student Harry Webb will take about a year-and-a-half to complete.