No 10 dismisses US claim of ‘two-tier’ UK policing after Henry Nowak murder

A person cycles past tributes for Henry Nowak outside of Portswood police station in Southampton. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

No 10 has dismissed the Trump administration’s criticism of “two-tier policing” in the UK as the US state department offered condolences to the family of the murdered teenager Henry Nowak.

Downing Street said it did not recognise the state department’s position, echoing the justice secretary, David Lammy, who had earlier said it did not chime with his experience.