A top judge warned of contempt of court dangers after prosecutors said former home secretary Suella Braverman made “regrettable” comments that indirectly criticised the charging decision of a firearms officer ahead of his murder trial.
Before Martyn Blake’s case went to trial, a court hearing at the Old Bailey heard that a tweet from Ms Braverman, which said firearms officers “mustn’t fear ending up in the dock for carrying out their duties”, had been viewed more than six million times.
