Reform UK MPs Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have confirmed that they have instructed TMI Limited to commence a private prosecution of the Manchester Airport police attackers.
In October of this year Reform UK warned the CPS to "Charge the Manchester airport attackers of three police officers, or we will crowdfund a private prosecution". Nigel Farage and Richard Tice also have a piece in The Telegraph.
In a video posted to X they said:
The Southport riots led to immediate arrests and, in some cases, imprisonment, not just for those that threw bricks, but for those who said things online. Yet the appalling attack on police officers at Manchester Airport has been completely ignored. We think, as Reform UK, this is as clearer illustration of 2 tier policing, 2 tier justice, in 2 tiers Britain as you could possibly see. And we promised a few weeks ago that if the Crown Prosecution Service did not lay some charges against these men who remember even broke the nose of a woman's police officer that we would take out a private prosecution. And Richard Tice, my deputy leader has news.
So let's remind ourselves this assault took place on the 23rd July. Here we are in the second half of November. No news whatsoever, and when we announced that we were going to do this private criminal prosecution, we thought we might hear from somebody. Absolute silence. Zip, nothing at all.
So the firm that we have instructed is TMI Limited. They are the largest private prosecutor in the country. They have over a 1000 successful prosecutions, and they are going to write today to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, and also to the Crown Prosecution Service, with their requirements, with the evidence, with the requirements to conduct witness statements, and much more in order to commence this prosecution. We said we'd do it. We waited to hear.
We've heard nothing, so we're left with no alternative. Yeah. We will not live in a 2 tier country. Absolutely not.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1858465864497922183
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1858250561713303980
